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...fact, Taylor himself suggested the Bundy trip. It has become customary for the ambassador to return to Washington for consultations every couple of months. But with South Viet Nam in its present chaotic condition, Taylor felt that he should stick to his post (the last time he left, last fortnight on a trip to Laos, another Saigon government was thrown out of office). The ambassador even sent to Washington a memorandum listing some 20 points that he hoped to discuss at length with Bundy; they ranged from whether Taylor should fly to Washington to brief Congress some time soon...
Also at the Paramout is a curious featurette "The Wandering Wind" about a chaotic hot-air balloon race across the Catalina Channel. After much colorful preparation, gay music, and chatty reportage we see a stiff wind carry the only female contestant's balloon out to sea through a cotton candy cloud. A drab black and white newsreel, clipped on at the end, shows a rescue boat recovering her drowned body...
Trodden's order raised the possibility that the police would have no parking tickets for considerable time. "Let it be chaotic until they come back with new tickets," he said after the meeting...
Castro has never forgiven the Kremlin for pulling its nuclear rockets out of Cuba without so much as a by-your-leave. He chafes at the unfavorable trade terms demanded by the Russians, ignores the attempts by his Iron Curtain advisers to impose order on his chaotic, Latin-tempered regime. "We have no need to go around borrowing brains from anyone," said Castro. "Nor do we have any need of borrowing heads, bravery, revolutionary spirit, heroism or intelligence. We live in a changing world, and it is necessary that each country know how to interpret the Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
Written by Brecht and set to music by Weill when both were young artists, The Threepenny Opera was first produced in Berlin in 1928. It depicts the chaotic existence fostered by the tottering Welmar Republic. The riots which the production provoked led to its suspension by the Nazis, and jeopardized the security of its authors, both of whom were later forced to flee Germany...