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...factors, John Kennedy decided to talk and not test-for the time being. To Ambassador Dean in Geneva went instructions to continue trying to outsit the Russians (which Dean wryly calls "the bladder technique"). The faint hope was that U.S. patience and the pressure of world opinion might just wring out some Russian concession. "The stakes are too important." said President Kennedy, "for us to abandon the draft treaty we have offered at Geneva...
...talk to each other, I still would not like to see Dr. Adenauer and Dr. Schumacher [then Socialist leader] talk behind barbed wire in the Urals about what they should have done in the spring of 1952," he cried. Der Alte was so moved that he strode down to wring Strauss's hand. After Strauss delivered a big Bavarian majority in the 1953 elections, Adenauer offered him the Ministry for Family and Youth Affairs. "Me, a bachelor, in charge of family affairs?" countered Strauss, who was leading a pretty gay life in the wine-houses of Bonn. He settled...
...October 23 and 30 the three Roman Catholic Bishops of Puerto Rico ordered pastoral letters to be read in the island's churches, emphasizing their long-standing opposition to the governor and declaring it a sin to vote for his Popular Democratic Party. The Church has been unable to wring three legislative measures from Munoz: prohibition of birth control and voluntary sterilization, and permission for one hour out of the 15-hour school week for religious instruction...
Before Khrushchev arrived in New York, people feared the great propaganda gains he might wring out of the U.N. session. They wanted to rope him off, not only to keep away assassins but to prevent him from subverting anyone. Within a few days, Manhattan's judgment was that he was quite a character but, surprisingly, a nuisance and a roadblock as often as a threat. Khrushchev showed once again that he is half blinded by his own ideological lenses. The Afro-Asians were scrupulously neutral. Khrushchev, having put himself in opposition not only to the West...
...farm belt, he cannot win the election unless he can also beat Kennedy in some of the big industrial states east of the Mississippi. To do that despite the Catholic bloc voting for Kennedy that showed up in primaries, Nixon will have to 1) appeal to Negroes and 2) wring a lot of votes out of his chief vote-getting advantage over Kennedy: greater foreign policy background...