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...years of diplomacy to be able to say that." Diplomatic as ever, Pearson continued: "When we've finished our talks, it'll be warm and sunny. There'll be blue skies and tulips." Sunny it was, at least in talk. Out on the Kennedy patio in wicker chairs, walking around the deep green lawn, beside a crackling fire or over poached flounder, the two talked for ten hours in all. The substance was about as expected. Canada will live up to its word on nuclear arms; U.S. and Canadian officials will work out new arrangements for sharing...
...built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory, turning copper, tin and bronze scrap into equipment for warriors, farmers and housewives of the Homeric...
...Kennedy's Wednesday morning press conference last week (the afternoon New York Post was back in business, and the President wanted to hit at least the late editions), New York Timesman Tom Wicker put the proposition plainly. "Your policies in Europe seem to be encountering great difficulties," he said. "Cuba continues to be a problem. At home unemployment is high. There seems to be more concern in the country over a budget deficit than for a tax cut. In view of all these things, there is some impression and talk in the town and country that your Administration seems...
...strikes that have cost more than 5,000,000 workdays. Many of these were caused by niggling jurisdictional disputes among 650 unions, which range in size from Frank Cousins' mammoth Transport and General Workers Union (1,200,000 members) to shrimps like the National Union of Basket, Cane, Wicker and Fibre
Smiling broadly, Lodge strolled up and down, saying to everyone "My name is George Lodge." Several young ladies with him carried wicker baskets full of bottle tops, buttons, bumper stickers, and pamphlets...