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Worthy returned to Boston in 1957 and attended Harvard as a Neiman Fellow, but he continued his drive to gain access to restricted countries. While he was at Harvard, a Western Union cablegram informed him that the Communist Chinese government had approved his visa application to visit Peking. He left immediately, without receiving the required State Department validation whose China policy played on the fears of uninformed Americans would never approe his trip. Worthy and two Look Magazine reporters spent 41 days in China, sending back daily reports to an enthralled public...
...early in 1962, Brooklyn Attorney James B. Donovan received a cablegram from Berlin which said only: HAPPY NEW YEAR HELEN. The message was a coded signal that set in motion one of the dramatic moments of the cold war-the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Russian Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a top Soviet spy who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for the previous 4½ years. In this absorbing new book, Lawyer Donovan, the amateur diplomat who later negotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, recounts the events leading up to the Berlin...
Then Castro tried to set a condition: "The raising and negotiation of this problem cannot be made only by cablegram, and it is better that a delegation should be sent to Cuba. In this there should be one of the principal members of the committee, preferably Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt or Milton Eisenhower." Castro obviously was elated at the prospect of making propaganda headlines out of having a Roosevelt or an Eisenhower come hat in hand to Havana...
There is some doubt about how many students will come. The Research Center received a cablegram from Moscow Saturday saying that the students would leave there yesterday, but the cablegram included neither the names nor number of students in the Harvard contingent. Originally, four were expected, but the whole group may not arrive today...
Former Advocate editor T.S. Eliot cabled his remarks: "Your cablegram arrived too late/ And insufficiently addressed/ So you confuse my modest muse/ Who none the less cannot refuse/ Compliance with your kind request/ To greet The Harvard Advocate...