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...month's visit to the U.S., Sicily's Red-leaning Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, winner of last year's Nobel Prize for literature, returned home convinced that the U.S. deserves more sympathy than it has ever gotten from him. What surprised Quasimodo most was that, amidst all the U.S'.s material wealth, poets seem to sprout "everywhere."' But he still believes that the U.S. neglects its poets' social security. Said Quasimodo, whose poetry will get its first sizable English rendition in a book that will be published in the U.S. next month: "The United...
...Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
Most of the caves had been cleaned out by Bedouins, but Aharoni found several that they had missed. Inside, the floors were foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge...
...York's Senator Kenneth Keating heatedly called Cuba "a ship boarded by pirates." But official U.S. policy toward Cuba, as written by President Eisenhower, is to keep calm and wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk debate...
...West: "If it fails to resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never had a poor vintage year. He declaimed...