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Lodge became President Eisenhower's United Nations Ambassador, serving longer in that post (7 1/2 years) than anyone before or since. At the U.N., the dashing diplomat is best remembered for his caustic oratory against the Soviet Union. In 1960, during the debate over the downing of an American U-2 intelligence plane over the Soviet Union, Lodge displayed in the Security Council a wooden plaque bearing the seal of the U.S. The plaque, which had hung for 15 years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, turned out to be bugged. Later that year Lodge became Richard Nixon's running...
Arthur D. Little immediately filed appeals and observes predicted that the issue of nerve gas testing in Cambridge may lead to protracted and expensive legal battle that may go all the way to the U>S> Supreme Court...
...election year in Greece, and for Papandreou's benefit the Soviets gave the visit all the trappings of international diplomacy, although neither side offered major political concessions. The mercurial Papandreou seemed content with yet another demonstration of his aggressively independent style in East-West relations. His occasional anti-U.S. rhetoric and his jabs against NATO (see box) are based on the conviction that a fellow NATO ally, Turkey, and not the Soviet Union, represents the greatest threat to Greece's security...
...McCarthyism, a puppet of the most reactionary circles in the U.S. We'll never be able to find a common language with him." He said that "we can influence the American presidential election." He related how he saw through the Americans when the Eisenhower Administration asked us to release U-2 Pilot Powers. "We would never give Nixon such a present!" he exclaimed...
...credits toward a master's degree. This fall N.T.U. plans to start using satellite transmission. Teleconferencing may occasionally be added so that students can participate in classroom dialogue. So far 270 are enrolled all over the U.S. The goal is 5,000. If it all sounds like Brave New U., one N.T.U. official is confident that the satellite will be the key to expansion: "The universities are waiting to sign our dance card...