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Changed Positives. Kennedy has al ways been a man of positive ideas - but some of the positives have changed. During the 1960 campaign, he effectively used the charge that U.S. prestige had plum meted during Dwight Eisenhower's Ad ministration. In fact, the U.S. had under Ike, and retains under Kennedy, a high reservoir of good will in the free world -as Kennedy saw for himself in his triumphal trips to London, Paris and, more recently Latin America. During the presidential campaign, Kennedy also made much of the "missile gap" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; within...
Asks Sartre rhetorically: "On which side are the savages? On which side is barbarism?" His answer is that they are now on the French side. He hears the equivalent of the native tom-toms in the automobile horns with which the French ultras like to beat out the rhythm Al-gé-rie fran-çaise. "The unification of the Algerian people is producing the disintegration of the French people. Terror has left Africa and established itself here in France. Violence thus comes full circle, going this way and that way until, step by step, we are going native...
...Katangese are guilty of is wanting to be free.'' observes Democratic Senator Sam Ervin. Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent to Tito. The people are fed up with it." Says Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper: ''There's a growing feeling that we're putting up a great...
...Rodrigo gathered an army of admirers, and off and on for 30 years beat back the Moslem armies. Though generally far outnumbered, he never lost a battle, and did more than any man of his time to rescue Spain from the Moors. In fear and trembling, they called him "al Seid" (the Lord...
Like an eager candidate for membership in the Union League Club, the President ticked off the names of his chief aides who had come from the business community-Secretaries Hodges, Dillon, McNamara, et al. His speech was studded with assurances of his fond feelings toward private enterprise, and one promise drew a burst of applause: "This administration, therefore, during its term of office-and I repeat this and make it as a flat statement-has no intention of imposing exchange controls, devaluing the dollar, raising trade barriers or choking off our economic recovery...