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Still combining pleasantries with threats, Khrushchev turned from local farm conditions to international politics, met for luncheon near the booming Siberian industrial city of Novosibirsk with Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, who had traveled 2,380 miles by auto, train and jet to find out whether his country's delicate neutrality was about to be shattered...
...Many Greys. Nehru staunchly defended his neutralist position. Asked at a National Press Club luncheon how he could sit on the fence in a conflict between right and wrong, he sighed wearily. "There are far too many greys in this world," he said. "A politician may aim at the right-he may even perceive the right-but he must convey that perception to others to function. A saint need not-therefore he is often stoned to death...
...planned for Jawaharlal Nehru's official U.S. visit this week is as austere as vegetable curry. Wryly mindful of the pomp and circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
...Kennedys' social activities keep the State Department's protocol division so busy that Protocol Chief Angier Biddle Duke, weary after making arrangements for two official visits in one week, last week fell asleep at the luncheon for the Kekkonens. Ordinarily that would have been a social disaster-but Kennedy's guests were having such a good time that hardly anyone noticed the lapse...
...time on a frantic schedule of "nonpolitical" campaigning. On a recent Sunday, he drove from Hyannisport to Natick to deliver a breakfast speech at a men's group at Temple Israel. After 11:30 Mass, he hurried to a Framingham neighborhood coffee meeting, followed it up with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State School for retarded children. That night he attended the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway Committee banquet, held in Dorchester...