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...risks faze Chicago's big Continental Casualty Co. It pioneered in life insurance for United Nations truce teams, drivers in the Indianapolis 500 and health insurance for the aged. This week Continental announced it would cross another frontier: group dental insurance...
...Algerian nationalists rejected DeGaulle's proposal for negotiations under an Algerian flag of truce, Chanderli stated, because they have not lost the war. War, he said, can be stopped only by mutual settlement or by defeat of one party. "The nationalist strength is increasing every day," he emphasized, and Algeria could not be expected to capitulate merely in order to negotiate with the French...
Soft Sell & Hard Hit. The hardshell Conservative who had angrily denounced the Rockefeller-Nixon truce before Chicago as a "Munich," now calmly ignores the liberal program built into the G.O.P. platform. The Republican platform is, he says, the lesser of two evils. He hard-hits Lyndon Johnson as "the forgotten candidate." He writes off Jack Kennedy with sarcasm: "Sometimes I wonder how Jack gets that sailboat back to harbor...
Nixon urged a foreign policy truce during Khrushchev's stay. Kennedy was not having any. But well aware of the risk that he and Khrushchev might be simultaneously criticizing U.S. policy, Kennedy, in his first nationally televised address of the campaign, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, tried a different technique. He addressed himself directly to Khrushchev. "But how can you talk of peace, Mr. Khrushchev," he asked, "when you and your Chinese Communist friends are undermining the peace every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded...
...right places, he dropped hints on how to end the hostilities. When these filtered up to the Mormon high councils, the elders, already weary of the expensive battle, gave them a cordial reception. In 1952, largely on John Francis Fitzpatrick's terms, the war ended in a truce...