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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and their aides sat down to lunch at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. in Manhattan, someone discovered that a package of Russian cigarettes on the table bore the brand name Troika. This allusion to the Soviet U.N. policy created general hilarity. The actual remarks are not known, but it is just possible that someone asked Gromyko: "Are you vetoing more and enjoying it less...
...four campuses (total enrollment: 11,100) can take courses at the others. The four have a joint astronomy department, share their first history of science professor. Last year they opened a common educational FM radio station, conferred their first Ph.D. degree (on a candidate whose hood bore colors representing all four of the schools). If they can raise the needed $16 million, they hope to build an entire new experimental college for 1,000 students...
...Israelis pushed through two passageways into the ancient, open-air theater amid the ghostly remains of Caesarea, chief port of Rome's eastern colonies, built by Herod the Great ten years before the birth of Christ. Behind the orchestra pit lay cracked columns and stonework that bore witness to the far reach of the Roman Empire: pink granite from Egypt, creamy marble from Greece and Asia. The crumbling limestone seats, only recently excavated by Italian archaelogists, were liberally sprinkled with the dust of centuries...
...question is whether there is not a demon driving Khrushchev and world communism which will not stop because it cannot." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Marquis Childs wondered if the "world will survive," pinned his personal hopes on the U.S.'s new disarmament agency-a small-bore institution ($10,000,000 to work with) as yet unborn. Chronically gloomy Joe Alsop warned his readers to face the unpalatable truth: "For the first time in America, one or two voices are beginning to be heard, arguing that what ought to be done is to surrender. Their arguments will...
...choosing Scharf to succeed crusty Bishop Otto Dibelius last February as head of the Evangelical Church, the synod bore in mind his reputation for dealing with the Reds in a way that won their grudging respect. Said one top Communist official: "Give me Scharf rather than any other churchman. At least I understand what he wants." And in office Kurt Scharf has been uniquely free to attend church meetings across the border-even on occasion to go abroad, as he did for the enthronement of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury...