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...avoid a State Department ban on travel to Cuba, the 58 had to fly expensively roundabout courses to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague before winging on to Havana on Czechoslovak Airlines. They were lionized by President Osvaldo Dorticós, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, Communist Boss Blas Roca and, of course, Fidel himself, who skindived with them near the Bay of Pigs and played pingpong with them at Varadero. ("I give up," California Student Eric Johnson gasped. "What you are doing to me is another Bay of Pigs.") They visited shipyards, collective farms and schools, squeezed...
With some 125 East-bloc agents arrested every month in their divided country, Germans are blasé about spy stories. But the case that unfolded in a Karlsruhe courtroom last week proved that Bonn's vaunted Gehlen intelligence service had been infiltrated for ten years by the Reds, and that the organization had knowingly hired former Nazis. All three of the men on trial, longtime employees of Gehlen, were also longtime employees of the Soviet Union. By all odds, it was the most embarrassing spy scandal to hit West Germany since...
...particularly difficult case is the company that claims if does not employ Negroes because it does not receive any Negro applicants, Gartner noted. In some cases this is a legitimate position, and the company does not show any blas in its hiring...
Szulc's article also noted that Blas Roca, the Communist party leader, has been out of the country during the crisis, that a "Cuba first" tone has characterized recent public speeches in Havana, and that "the predominant impression (in Washington) is that Premier Castro has adopted an intransigent 'hard line' in his dealings with the Soviet Union as well as in his attitude toward the United States...
...pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of champagne-sipping nonchalance. "Why should I be excited," sniffed Roger Maris, taking the series in his usual stride. "It's something we expected all along." But the Yankees do not have quite that much to be blasé about. If Maris was last year's home-run terror, he was this year's loud out, batting .256 and hitting only 33 home runs. Mickey Mantle's spindleshanks spoiled what might have been his best season, stranding him on the bench for a third...