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...some moments of pleasantry. Once Kennedy lit up a cigar and dropped the match behind Khrushchev's chair. "Are you trying to set me on fire?" the Premier joked. When Kennedy assured him that he had no such idea in mind, Khrushchev answered with a smile: "Ah-a capitalist, not an incendiary." Another time, Khrushchev and Secretary of State Dean Rusk got into a debate on dwarf corn. Khrushchev declared that it could not be grown in quantity. Rusk, who was born on a Georgia cotton farm, insisted that Khrushchev was wrong, and promised to send him some samples...
...Capitalist Captive. Khrushchev obviously had carefully prepared for his meeting with the new U.S. President. He told Kennedy that he had read "all of your speeches," even quoted back to the President phrases from last month's second State of the Union address to Congress. Once Khrushchev declared that Kennedy had reversed an order that would have sent U.S. Marines to Laos; when Kennedy denied it, Khrushchev looked unbelieving. Khrushchev stuck by the error that Kennedy was the captive of top industrialists and financiers who met Khrushchev in New York on his 1959 U.S. tour. Even after Kennedy explained...
...headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko?joined Kennedy and Khrushchev at the table. After a cocktail (Khrushchev downed a bourgeois martini, Kennedy a Dubonnet), the two leaders exchanged champagne toasts, regaled each other with political anecdotes and lighthearted comparisons of the Communist and capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed his hands in his coat pockets...
From these premises Miss Rand derives an elaborate glorification of the capitalist system in general and the businessman in particular. "Capitalism demands the best of every man--his rationality--and rewards him accordingly," she proclaims. "Success depends on the objective value of work." Her praise of the entrepreneur is sometimes quite staggering: he is a man who "takes pride in his work and in the value of his work and in the value of his product--who drives himself with inexhaustible energy and limitless ambition to do better and still better and ever better--who is willing to bear penalties...
Churches & Schools. "If Mr. Kennedy does not like socialism," Castro orated, "well, we do not like capitalism. We have as much right to protest over the existence of a capitalist-imperialist regime 90 miles off our coast as he feels he has to protest over the existence of a socialist regime 90 miles off his coast." How about democracy? Castro made his disdain blunter than he had before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call...