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...announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees, saw a three-hour parade that included 2,000 extra men drafted into the Ivory Coast army just for the occasion. At dinner, the guests sat on gold chairs, ate to the luxurious clatter of gold knives and forks, listened to Chopin on hifi...
...Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
Sovereign Choice. Parliament's Tory and Labor backbenchers last week held a three-hour debate on Common Market entry. (Macmillan and Labor's Hugh Gaitskell were conspicuously absent to ensure that the issue did not come to a premature vote.) Though Britain's immediate problems in entering the Common Market are economic-protecting her farmers, safeguarding Commonwealth trade-the ultimate question involved is national sovereignty and prestige. This issue cuts straight across party lines...
...Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that he was bent upon "liberating" Ku wait and returning it to the Iraqi "homeland." Upon hearing the news, Britain prudently dispatched two frigates and the aircraft carrier Bulwark to Kuwait, un loaded Centurion tanks and 600 marine commandos...
...added, had one good side effect: by forcing the President to bed, it gave the back an additional chance to heal. There was not much time for healing: after 31 supine hours, impatient John Kennedy got up out of his sick bed to say farewell to Ikeda, hold a three-hour crisis conference with his foreign-policy advisers on Berlin. Then, still weak but "feeling fine," he flew off to recover over a weekend at Glen...