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...other three adopted De Gaulle's suggestion to hold a now-or-never 3 o'clock summit meeting, and had to send a motorcycle cop out the Pleurs road to hand the invitation to the wandering Khrushchev. At 3 the others gathered somberly in the conference room at the Elysée Palace, which 200 years ago had been the dining salon of Madame de Pompadour. By then Khrushchev was back in Paris, but instead of sitting in the empty red plush armchair that was awaiting him, he was relaxing in a bathtub at the Soviet embassy...
...Pursuit. In Nashville, Tenn., while Traffic Cop T. J. Slowey hid behind a tree, watching for speeders, his motorcycle caught fire under him, burned...
...boredom or obscurity. What does a good poet do? He captures the sound of his own voice talking, says Graves, a natural voice and "not the one in which we try to curry favour with children at a party, or with an election crowd, or with a traffic cop.'' To show what happens when a poet merely apes passing fashions. Graves does a parody of a Japanese haiku called "The Loving Parents...
Eyewash. In Leominster. Mass., Robert J. Cunningham was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction after disobeying a traffic signal, squirting an irate cop in the face with a water pistol...
Police rushed in. One hulking cop tried to haul away a student. A dark-eyed coed felled him with a blow of her shoe's high heel. Truckloads of cops roared up and shooting started. Three students fell; University President Siddik Sami Onar arrived, told the police chief it was illegal for his forces to enter university grounds. He was knocked down, bloodied and carted off to a police station. "Give us our president!" roared the students, now 5,000 strong and boiling mad. By the time President Onar was brought back, they were past heeding his call...