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Speaking to newsmen afterward, Kennedy thanked the Eisenhower Administration for its cooperation. Said he: "I don't think we have asked for anything that they haven't done...
Marching north to do battle with the Communists, Royal Laotian soldiers tossed hand grenades in the Nam Song River and jumped in afterward to scoop up the stunned banana fish that floated to the surface. They swam, roasted pigs and fish over open fires, and drank plenty of Mekong rice whisky, paid for by their commanding officer and flown in every day by Sikorsky helicopters manned by U.S. civilian pilots...
...Memorial Hospital last month, doctors found evidence of massive cancer metastasis (spreading growth) throughout his body. Last week, on his birthday, Dr. Dooley was visited by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. Said Cardinal Spellman afterward: "I tried to assure him that in his 34 years he had done what very few have done in the allotted Scriptural lifetime." A day later, Tom Dooley was dead...
...closed-door session on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. affairs abroad. Afterward, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore summed it up for newsmen. What Herter presented, said Gore, was "not a very encouraging review." That was something of an understatement in a week when the underlying conflict between the West and Communism erupted on three fronts. While Communists were undermining United Nations efforts to rescue the Congo from chaos, two other Communist offensives stirred the Eisenhower Administration into emergency conferences and serious decisions...
Burei. The keynote is burei (no manners). While employees in the U.S. may get drunk at office parties and tell the boss off, employees in Japan are virtually required to; that is considered an improvement on the hit-or-miss American tradition. Afterward, everyone politely forgets all that happened...