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...every sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
Officially, it was simply a pomp-and-panoply state visit as Queen Elizabeth of Britain last week paid a five-day call in Brussels on King Baudouin of Belgium. But Brussels is more than just the capital of Belgium these days. With each fresh agreement of the Common Market Six (see WORLD BUSINESS), it becomes more and more the headquarters and repository of the Continent's hopes for unity. Mindful of that, the Queen had some carefully chosen words to say: "Like so many things in life, the desirable is not always immediately attainable, but I join with...
...from a helicopter on the White House lawn; later the Indian leader was variously presented with more red roses, yellow roses, artificial roses, an impressionistic painting of a rose and a gilded rose from Tiffany's. All of them could serve well to symbolize the result of her five-day visit: a new flowering in the relations between the world's two largest democracies...
Ayub himself did not seem too comfortable as the five-day tour wore on. At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have...
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner led a 23-expert team on a five-day tour of South Viet Nam probing the war-torn na tion's social needs...