In the August heat, the American side of the cold war was momentarily envious of the Soviet space performance, flash-angry over a hijacked plane, and irritated by Castro. But a kind of consensus seemed to have been reached about Berlin —that the issue had to be pressed, and that if it was. something might well be won. Reporters at his press conference were hard put to get any headline news out of President John Kennedy's deliberately muted statements about Berlin. In Paris. NATO's foreign ministers wound up talks about ways to beef up Western Europe's forces, with the U.S....
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