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...Last week it was apparent from the SRO signs outside the house that Director Ducreux had a hit on his hands. As for the riot, noted Ducreux tolerantly, "It was a cabal against me, a vegetable rich cabal. The hecklers were only looking for a raison d'être. They have-modified Descartes' statement to make it "I boo, therefore I exist...
Over dinner at La Fenétre, the British disarmament delegation's residence near Geneva, Foreign Secretary Lord Home tried a new way of explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...
Maria Callas: Great Arias from French Operas (Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, conducted by Georges Prêtre; Angel). Callas deserts the Italian roles in which she became famous for the heroines of Gluck, Bizet, Gounod, Charpentier. The voice is predictably wobbly in spots, but the interpretations are uniformly superb, suggesting that Callas may still have a new repertory to explore...
...spokesman was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. While Cuba's spinach-bearded economic commissar, Che Guevara, glowered in his chair, Dillon opened the conference with the most gen erous offer of help in U.S. history. In a flat, toneless voice that failed to hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution...
...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...