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Seven NATO partners-Britain, Belgium, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Turkey, West Germany-were immediately receptive to Merchant's proposal. West Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale...
...clearance sale continues until Friday. Absolutely everything is reduced: both men's and women's sportswear, parkas, stretch pants, Italian hand-knit sweaters, skis and all equipment. Most items are 20 per cent off regular price. Mrs. Brine insists that her down-filled quilted parkas ($28) are "the warmest thing...
Last week, like a diva making her positively final appearance. Norstad once again bade ceremonial leave to his old associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
...Even the warmest admirers of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara agree that he is something less than the soul of diplomacy. His voice rasps with irritation at slower-witted subordinates; he has cut off soldiers and solons in mid-spiel. But while McNamara has effectively been shaking things up at the Pentagon, another man has effectively been soothing them down. He is Roswell L. Gilpatric, 55, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and by general agreement the most important No. 2 man in any department or agency of the New Frontier...
...there was as much anti-gringoism in Mexico as people say, the U.S. President saw little of it. By the uncounted millions, Mexicans gave him and his pretty wife the warmest abrazo and the greatest outpouring of good will he had yet seen on his travels...