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Winding up his 15-day state visit to Yugoslavia last week, Nikita Khrushchev found himself playing an unusual role-that of listener. Evidently he hoped to offset the Russian split with Red China by getting closer to Tito, with whom relations ever since 1955 have alternated between fairly warm and fairly chilly. Khrushchev not only swallowed Tito's determination to maintain his status as a Communist "independent," but in a four-day session at the island retreat of Brioni patiently listened to his host's advice on how to outbid the Chinese in the struggle for the leadership...
...EVAN MECHAM, 39, another Arizonan, operating largely on nerve, got into print this week with the first issue of the Phoenix Evening American. To get even this far, Mecham had to cannibalize the corpse of the Arizona Journal-by buying its offset presses right out from under Cattleman Smith's nose, and leaving Smith to scrabble for new presses...
...Gains Offset the Risks. This treaty will assure the security of the United States better than continued unlimited testing on both sides. According to a comprehensive report prepared by responsible agencies government for the National Security Council the tests conducted by both the Soviet Union and the U.S. since President Eisenhower first proposed this kind of treaty in 1959 have not resulted in any substantial alteration in the strategic balance. Under this treaty, any gains in nuclear strength and knowledge which could be made by the tests of any other power-including not only underground tests, but even any illegal...
...capita income: $135 a year). Bucharest eagerly cultivates Western traders to supply the latest machinery for its new steel and petrochemical plants; at home political discipline is tighter than ever. When Rumanians last year flocked to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment, the regime tried to offset its popularity by distributing leaflets explaining that the movie was really about decadence in New York City...
...overwhelming fact about The Trial is that it is magnificently directed, and the quality of Welles' direction is high enough to offset many of the weaknesses of the film. Had the casting, the writing, and the acting been as good, The Trial might have been a great movie; as it is, it is one which should not be missed...