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...voice of peace." He also released news of a new $500 million trade and aid pact with East Germany, designed to ease the East Germans' heavy dependence on West Germany for industrial supplies and thereby clearing the way for a new Berlin crisis. But Khrushchev looked wan and tired when he alighted in Bratislava...
Peering around at a Times Square depopulated by the nationwide civil defense alert last week (see cut), New York's Mayor Robert Wagner appeared wan and haggard. Wagner recently underwent an operation for a nonmalignant tumor, but his troubled look could have had another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that...
...Wan Smile. Slowly, the clerk began reading off the roll. All but six members of the House voted-an extraordinary total. One of the few who did not vote was Rayburn himself; he would have voted to break a tie, but it never came to that...
...border states, voted against Rayburn, but 22 Republicans, mostly from the urban Northeast, crossed over the party line to save him from a humiliating defeat. When Rayburn announced the totals. Howard Smith stood up and shuffled off the floor and into the cloakroom. "Well," he said with a wan smile, "we done our damnedest." Rayburn's smile was far from wan. "We won." he said, his eyes dancing, "and I am satisfied...
...Just how wan was demonstrated last week in Viet Nam, where a parallel control commission, set up at the end of the Indo-China war, still operates. The U.S. presented evidence of a huge arms buildup in North Viet Nam, but the Polish member voted against an on-the-spot inspection, and the Indian chairman agreed...