Word: unpredictables
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...with the express diplomatic purpose of winning friends and influencing enemies. In his luck-starred political career, John Kennedy had often handled that sort of challenge with smooth, winning assurance?but never before had he faced such a difficult friend as France's Charles de Gaulle, or such an unpredict able enemy as the Soviet Union's Khrushchev. As he carefully told the country beforehand, Kennedy's European rendezvous with history were not intended for strategic decision or diplomatic agreement. Instead, his mission was to take personal measure of the man De Gaulle and the man Khrushchev?...
...Bannockburn, where he grows acres of onions, Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn once more broke out his battle flag. Last week Canada's most unpredict able politician returned to the Liberal fold he left two years ago, when he quit as Ontario's Premier and abandoned his Party, thus contributing to its defeat...
...demarcation line that runs like a jagged wound across the face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded...
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