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California All-Star Rodeo (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A corralful of the nation's top broncobusters stage a Salinas showdown...
...implied threat of a showdown decided Nixon on a course of action that he had been turning over in his mind ever since the Democratic Convention nominated the Kennedy-Johnson ticket: a face-to-face conference with Rockefeller. Without ever discussing his plan with his staff, Nixon got New York Lawyer Herbert Brownell, Tom Dewey's (1944 and 1948) campaign manager and Attorney General in the original Eisenhower Cabinet, to call Rockefeller to arrange a meeting. Brownell suggested that the meeting take place at his home in Manhattan, but, on the telephoned advice of his staff ers in Chicago, Rockefeller...
...appears that our Northern neighbor is closing the door of friendship and comprehension to the yearning of the Cuban people to live in liberty and economic independence, we, the representatives of the Mexican people, repeat our attitude of solidarity with the people of Cuba." In an actual OAS showdown, Mexico-and other major Latin nations-would probably declare their neutrality between the U.S. and Cuba...
Command Decision. Some such showdown has been in the making ever since Castro signed an agreement with the visiting Soviet trader, Anastas Mikoyan, last February to sell Russia 5,000,000 tons of sugar and buy 10 million bbl. of Russian oil (half a normal year's needs) in return. Castro's government asked the refineries to process the Russian crude. They consulted and refused. For a time, the Cubans did not press further. But three weeks ago, a Cuban economic mission traveled to Moscow and signed an agreement to buy additional Soviet oil at a price that...
...showdown for the deter mined rivals for power, lean, bearded Patrice Lumumba, 35, and roly-poly Joseph Kasavubu, 43. Before the crucial vote to choose the national leadership, the newly elected Deputies ranged widely through an array of foreign and domestic issues. One rose to complain that the Belgians had not provided delegates with cars ("It's a scandal that one of our Senate colleagues had to walk to work this morning!"). Another, wearing a kind of beanie with a beelike antenna, kept urging the legislators to mind their manners, hardly deterring the wag who cried periodically, "When...