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...Atlantic partnership, offering instead a grandiose, 18th century vision of an independent continent dominated by France. De Gaulle's rhetoric prompted the resignations of five French Cabinet ministers, drew worried disavowals from De Gaulle's frequent partner-in-criticism, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, and stung Kennedy to the strongest public rebuff he has yet aimed at an Allied head of state. The issues and arguments...
...Clearly stung by such criticism, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week answered back at a meeting of the New York Economic Club. The burden of Dillon's argument was that the real cause of the prospective budget deficits was not increased Government spending but the disappointing pace of the business recovery-which means that the Government's tax revenues will not be so large as it had anticipated. Dillon conceded that when a nation's industrial capacity is running full blast and consumer demand is strong, budget deficits "almost invariably lead to a rise in prices...
...prove this theory, they put toads in cages and offered them live dragonflies, bumblebees and robber flies. Inexperienced toads accepted all three alike, but toads that grabbed the bees got stung. Once stung, they would eat neither bumblebees nor robber flies, though the flies, in spite of their appearance, could not sting them...
...Permit Raj. Nehru's fury partly stems from the fact that the Swatantra leader, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's most prestigious elder statesman, attacks Nehru personally. "C.R.," also nicknamed "Rajaji," has stung Nehru by calling the Congress reign "corrupt and dishonest . . . worse than the rule of the Mogul emperor," has accused him of leading India to statism and Communism. A bowed and frail Madras Brahman whom Gandhi once called "keeper of my conscience," C.R. was a leader in the Congress freedom fight against the British, was the only Indian ever to serve as India's Governor General...
...Stung, Bolling made his brusque formal statement, then told reporters what he had been saying privately for weeks: that the White House had been wise in staying out of the race "so long as I wasn't very close." The implication was clear that he would have expected White House help if he had needed only an extra boost to put him over. "Just because I'm defeated in a fight," said Boiling, "doesn't mean that I won't continue to be interested in the things for which I have fought in the past...