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...Outer Mongolia's affairs. In Laos, Russia infuriated China by promoting a deal, however unsteady, with the U.S. and heralding it as "a major accomplishment." In India, Russia has supported Nehru's border war against Red China, first by providing small arms and helicopters for the swift movement of troops, most recently by offering the Indians supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters...
...Christianity as a whole, the most interesting half of the double bill set up for next October's Second Vatican Ecumenical Council is not "modernization" of the Roman Catholic Church but "Christian unity." No swift healing of the break that stems from Luther is remotely in prospect; yet many a move can be made. Hard at work on behalf of the Vatican is a German-born cardinal who got his red hat from Pope John XXIII in 1959: Augustin Bea, S.J., head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity...
Clague's speech hit the Administration hard. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, Clague's superior, issued a swift, snappish rebuttal: "The economic facts do not bear out such an assumption." Clague was telephoned, bawled out, and told to pull back. He and Goldberg worked out an "amplification." "I wish to make it clear that I was not making a prediction," said Clague. "only analyzing historic economic movements...
...same determined speed-if not the same temperament. With more than half of the season to go. he already has 34 stolen bases to his credit, seems certain to top the record for active players of 56 steals, set in 1959 by Chicago's Luis Aparicio. So swift and so canny is Wills that he has been caught trying to steal only five times this year, and the experts give him a chance to top even Cobb's record. Says Alston: "He's the greatest base stealer I've seen in the majors.'' Green...
McGinnis concedes, however, that his merger proposals are still "at a very informal stage," and on Wall Street last week some of his old colleagues did not seem to share his confidence in the Boston & Maine's future. "I think a swift breeze could take them right off the diving board," said one metaphor mixer. "McGinnis is probably abandoning a sinking ship...