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Both sides are preparing statements, to be produced at the United Nations, writing off the whole business as a stalemate. Such a stalemate-with the U.S. obviously coming out ahead in the direct cold-war confrontation-seems to suit some Administration officials fine. Cuba remains a Communist beachhead 90 miles off the U.S.'s southern shore. But the U.S. is continuing-and will keep up-its aerial reconnaissance flights; until its demands are met, it need not pledge against an invasion of Cuba. That keeps things open for future action...
...answered one "Americanism chairman" directly: "I repudiate your resolution, Buster, and your pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou title of 'Americanism chairman.' " When Ohio Republican Congressman Gordon Sherer joined forces with the Legion, Young devastated him in one grandly irrelevant blast: "While I was on the Anzio beachhead* he was Safety Director of Cincinnati, Ohio...
High school for everybody, in a form that Americans would recognize and even envy, is reaching England at last. In the nation that Disraeli once divided between the Privileged and the People, a new kind of high-standards school that mixes all social classes has won a broad beachhead...
...Bulgaria, which had just wiped out a beachhead of eight Peking supporters, 20 new victims were purged, including Foreign Minister Karlo Lukanov. Almost one-third of the old Central Committee membership has now been swept away...
...panicked and ran. A serious revolt occurred when 700 Scots, exhausted from three years' fighting in North Africa, sullenly refused to go into battle. By the fifth day ashore, Mark Clark was so discouraged that, says Pond, he gave preliminary orders to withdraw the American troops from the beachhead and use them to reinforce the British; stunned by the order, the British simply ignored...