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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Before Khrushchev arrived in New York, people feared the great propaganda gains he might wring out of the U.N. session. They wanted to rope him off, not only to keep away assassins but to prevent him from subverting anyone. Within a few days, Manhattan's judgment was that he was quite a character but, surprisingly, a nuisance and a roadblock as often as a threat. Khrushchev showed once again that he is half blinded by his own ideological lenses. The Afro-Asians were scrupulously neutral. Khrushchev, having put himself in opposition not only to the West...
...have become so accustomed to reliance upon nuclear deterrence, disguised as "security," that its rejection creates a vacuum that appears equally frightening at first glance. Conflicts among nations exist and will continue to exist, and we must consider how to keep alive our basic values and defend our tradition of liberty in the absence of the self-defeating policy of deterrence. Today the choice before thinking Americans who are concerned about the future of the nation and of mankind is not total surrender versus total annihilation. This idea is either a deliberate invention to support the massive retaliation doctrine...
...sudden new demand for gold has been chiefly met by sales in London, since it has been cheaper to buy it there than in the U.S. While the U.S. always stands ready to sell gold for $35 an ounce, thus setting the "official" world price, purchasers who want to keep their gold abroad have usually found that service and shipping charges push the delivered price of U.S. gold up 25? to 30? an ounce over the London price. But last week's rise brought the two prices about even. Any further rise will make U.S. gold cheaper, and increase...
...Bronx three months ago with a blare of publicity billing it as the world's largest outdoor entertainment center. But it has been no fun for its promoters. Last week they were scratching to round up fresh capital to pay the park's bills and keep it operating...
Australia, which gave the world the benefits of the Hula Hoop, last week was exporting a new craze-the wobble board. Made of Masonite. the 2 ft. by 3 ft. board, when wobbled, gives off a gloop-gloop sound, like water going down the drain. With it youngsters can keep the beat to a wacky lament of a dying rancher called Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.* Australian parents are wobbling under the board's gloop. The craze has spread to Great Britain, where already 100,000 records have brought the resonant beat of the wobble board. Last week there...