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...critics were a few Cuban exiles, some of whom had lost relatives to Castro's firing squads. They mailed so many threats of stoning, bombing and shooting that the State Department and police kept some 200 men on duty guarding Castro right from the time his turbo-prop Britannia touched down at Washington airport two hours late. Castro wheeled dauntlessly through his guards to a wire fence and flung out his arms to the hundreds of cheering Cubans. "He must be crazy," muttered a guard. "I'm getting more cops than Mikoyan," said Castro...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...
After once turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...