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...offensive, flew on to Paris to see Charles de Gaulle and then to London for discussions with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Roving Ambassador Averell W. Harriman surfaced in Warsaw, talked about Viet Nam with top Polish officials, including Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, headed for Belgrade to see President Tito, planned thence to go to India. White House Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy went secretly to see Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Canada, which is one of three nations on the Viet Nam International Control Commission set up by the 1954 Geneva Conference, thus has a representative in Hanoi...
...Died. Tito Schipa, 75, Italian opera star, a peppery tenor who, saying that hours spent in practice are wasted ("Singing is not like athletics-you don't get any better by exercise"), nursed his voice through a 54-year career, first in romantic opera, scoring successes in the U.S. with the Chicago Civic Opera in the '20s and New York's Metropolitan Opera in the early '40s, and later in concerts, to which he turned in his 60s to pursue an only slightly less vigorous career; of diabetic cardiovascular disease; in Manhattan...
...shotgun to avenge some fancied infidelity-as they round the corner of an apartment house, a shotgun blast brings dozens of men tumbling out of all the doors and windows, each dragging his trousers behind him. The art of Laurel and Hardy has already enchanted millions, from Marshal Tito (who owns a library of their films) to Master Mimic Marcel Marceau. Laughing 20's should bring new converts into the folderol...
Russia imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia in 1948 after Tito broke with the Comintern, but Tito survived. Arabs and Israelis embargo each other's products, but the results are hardly noticeable. In spite of U.S. sanctions, Cuba and Red China carry on. South Africa hardly realizes that it is being boycotted by 46 nations that are incensed at apartheid. The urge to trade is so strong that it usually can be dulled effectively only by outright war. Money talks louder than the flag...
...with the Indian government. Both these proposals plus those of the secretary general of the United Nations, five African heads of state, two left-wing British MP's, and the Canadian delegate to the International Control Commission, among others, have been heard and rejected in Hanoi and Peking. Marshal Tito and the other nonaligned chiefs of state who asked negotiations were denounced as "monsters and freaks" by China. India was accused of betraying the anti-imperialist struggle. When Secretary-General U Thant wanted to visit Peking, he was told "that the Vietnam situation had nothing to do with...