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Water over the Dam. Mikoyan seemed perfectly ready to accept the continued existence of a divided Germany, and at a big official dinner he even made a proposal about it. "How dangerous for Germany to follow its present path," he said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps destruction-for the German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal...
...could do nothing about it. What then of the 1955 summit agreement at Geneva, between Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden and Faure, to reunify Germany through free elections? Oh that, said Mikoyan, would have no place in a future summit agenda: "Since then a lot of water has gone over the dam, and much has changed. That is all in the past, and it is necessary to start all over again...
...around snivelling about how little money you have. Everybody knows you have just oodles stashed away for a rainy day. Well, friends, at the present time there's a flood. So pile up the money and build the dam that will help our nation's economy. Spend money. Waste money. Have a ball for yourself. Just so long as you really spread it around...
Last week the Office of Defense Mobilization started an investigation to determine whether the imports are really a danger. G.E. was doubly pleased. Just after ODM acted, G.E. was listed as the apparent low bidder for seven big electric generators at the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River near Pierre, S. Dak. When bids were first opened three months ago, Switzerland's Brown, Boveri was the low bidder at $9,502,895. But the Government threw out all the bids because they did not fit specifications and called for new ones. On these, G.E. was low bidder...
Died. Leon C. Phillips, 67, onetime (1939-43) governor of Oklahoma; of a heart attack; in Okmulgee, Okla. A former University of Oklahoma footballer, 3OO-lb. Democrat Red Phi lips once called out the National Guard to stop federal (PWA) work on the Grand River Dam, eventually turned completely against his party and the New Deal...