Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German visit had a second purpose. Accompanying Lübke was Bonn's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder. While the two Presidents went off to the opera and the Spanish Riding School, Schroder and Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kriesky were hard at it across the diplomatic table. Topic of their talks: neutral Austria's announced desire to join the European Common Market in some vague manner...
Party spokesmen insist that the topic is still under discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer...
Doubletalk. At Geneva (see above), U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home made Moscow's rough stuff over Berlin Topic A in their first talks with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. As reported by the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, there ensued some uncommonly blunt words among the three statesmen...
...Kelman--like Mr. Greenwald--has a right to speak on matters which concern him. Freedom of speech is in no way subordinate to any other freedoms, including the freedom to do research on a topic of one's own choosing. The suggestion that criticism be satisfied in order to protect investigators from public pressure is simply absurd, and we find it hard to believe that it was offered seriously. Where an individual feels that he sees an ethical problem, he has not only the right but the duty to present it for discussion. We know that the members...
Kennedy's trade expansion bill is "one of the two really big issues of this Congressional session, and a topic that people here are interested in," said Joseph B. Kadane '62, commenting on the success of the study he helped initiate. Work is organized so that the time required is "not very great," he added...