ATOMIC AGE: Coke at the Crossroads

Could it be possible that U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was really getting somewhere? Russia's usually churlish Andrei Gromyko explained that "nobody is asking for secrets" and that what his country wants is a discussion of plans for peaceful and constructive utilization of atomic energy. That helped. Mr. Gromyko bought Bernard M. Baruch of the U.S. a 15ยข Coke at the hotel bar, and 75-year-old Mr. Baruch presented Mr. Gromyko with a cake, on his 37th birthday.

More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship....

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