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...fear is gone, or at least the urgent sense of it. "There ain't gonna be no war," cried Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in the afterglow of Russian smiles at the first Geneva meeting at the summit. Last week the NATO nations, sweaty in their armor under the fitful post-Geneva sun, were somewhat shamefacedly wondering aloud whether all that weight was really necessary. They sometimes had the air of men trying to remember what all the excitement had been about. Implied but never stated was a bigger question: "Is NATO itself really necessary...
...broke as the day he wandered into the Lenox Athletic Club. Whenever he could cadge the price of a meal, he always filled his pockets with restaurant toothpicks. "Most of the time I'm on the Harlem diet now," he explained. "When I'm hungry and I ain't got the price of a feed, I drink a glass of water and pick my teeth. Then I use my imagination...
...European governments to channel U.S. aid to Europe. Mindful of objections to Euratom on the grounds that it covers too few countries and carries supranationalism too far, the O.E.E.C. committee proposed cooperation short of full partnership among the 17 O.E.E.C. nations. To include countries such as Brit ain, which is skittish about too deep involvement in continental federation, O.E.E.C. would settle for "joint undertakings" among different combinations of countries to spread their investment risks and to give Europe a more balanced atomic industry than any one nation could build alone. "Full cooperation," said the O.E.E.C. committee would "wreck the very...
...seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case of the verbal staggers: "If I don't rockabye now I'll be fit for naught but the ravens in the dawn." Mama is as p'ain as an apron and just as happily inoffensive. As the growing apple on the Grayleaf tree, eleven-year-old Tone is sprayed with the customary disinfecting bromides...
Mommy and Daddy are mad, I'm getting nuttin' for Christmas 'Cause I ain't been nuttin...