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...equipment, for the "hot line" that is to link the White House and the Kremlin in emergencies. At the first meeting, Harriman, 71, was greeted by Khrushchev with a cheery "You're absolutely blooming. What are you doing, counting your years backward?" When Britain's top envoy, Viscount Hailsham, said that Moscow's weather was better than London's, Khrushchev replied: "We could perhaps find some place for you here. You could be an internee...
...hopefully that Russia was being more pleasant in "the small things of life." As for the big things, "we are going in good faith and in the hope of achieving some steps that will be beneficial." The principal issues facing Harriman and his fellow negotiator, British Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, in Moscow...
Died. Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 79, first Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough and Chief of the British Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946, a brilliant staff officer little in the public eye while he was helping chart Allied strategy but later in full, controversial view when his wartime diaries became the basis for The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, in which he attacked virtually every top American (Ike: "no real commander"; Patton: "A character") and grandly regarded himself as the real architect of victory; of a heart attack; in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...
...great party," cried Viscount Hailsham on TV last week, "is not to be brought down by a woman of easy virtue!" But the possibility was real enough...
Died. Andrew Browne Cunningham, 80, Viscount of Hyndhope, a crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London...