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...American buses. As bone-jouncing replacements, canvas-covered Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies of U.S. magazines, but no more. And a monotonous buzz blots out the radio broadcasts from Miami. Even that wonderful old mirror over the bar at Ernest Hemingway's famous hangout La Floridita has been taken down. In its place is one of those sweaty murals of militant struggle, which is enough to drive a person from drink...
...only in surer that would touch it. "But we exercise our ruthlessness and choose only those risks we feel are insurable," says one Lloyd's underwriter. World War II was partly insurable for Lloyd's, which sold monthly policies against death or dismemberment caused by buzz bombs after calculating the odds at 1,000 to 1. But nuclear war is quite another mat ter; Lloyd's has added a clause canceling all its maritime policies in event of East-West conflagration "whether there be a declaration...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...
...suppose the intelligent thing to have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...
...Kennedy supports the plan. So, obviously, does his foreign aid administrator, David E. Bell, although he is not yet quite willing to come right out and say so. Last week Bell appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about the Bokaro project-and he bumped into a buzz saw in Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche...