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...Shoop (CrewCuts; Mercury). "C'mon, baby, I need your love tonight," is the gist of this message, unless the title means something else. The male quartet that smashed the top with Sh-Boom is probably going to repeat its success with this unpleasant item...
Last week, as the U.N.'s General Assembly gathered in New York, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave a report on the state of the world. The gist: not good...
...Egypt indicated that it might listen to the Kremlin's siren song. But now that the British have agreed to quit the Suez and the U.S. has promised $80 million in aid, Egypt's young military junta sent a statement to all foreign correspondents in Cairo. Its gist; Egypt regards itself as a friend to the West, though it is unwilling to join a defense alliance...
...under Communist wraps, Otto John faced a press conference in East Berlin that was open to Western correspondents. No more nervous than usual. Adenauer's former security chief read a six-page statement into a battery of microphones, then freely answered questions from 300 correspondents for an hour. Gist of his statement: he had defected to the Communists because "the Nazis and the militarists in West Germany are again in power" and "the Bonn-Paris axis is only a tool of the Americans." Americans, he said he had learned on his recent visit to Washington, are "downright hysterically...
...pastoral letter from a Roman Catholic cardinal kicked up a flurry of feeling last week over the sensitive subject of Protestant-Catholic relations. Chicago's Cardinal Archbishop, Samuel Stritch, 66, sent out a carefully worded communication to all Roman Catholic churches in Illinois. Its gist: Catholics should not participate, even as observers, in the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston...