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...recently for trespassing, the hacienda's peasant union, through their lawyer in Cuzco, got the men freed. Hacendado Luna does not see any need for agrarian reform. But at peasant meetings in the Andes, a new shout-"A la cubana!" (the Cuban way) -is heard echoing through the chill mountain night...
...Cuban disaster sent a chill through the chancelleries of Europe. A British official close to Macmillan observed that the fiasco in the Bay of Pigs "will incline us to take a second look at any proposal. One is inclined to wonder." In France, says a U.S. observer, the impact of Cuba was "catastrophic." Possibly because of their own impulsiveness, the French dread it in others. Paris gloomily noted Kennedy's original pledge to stay at home, to rely on normal diplomatic channels, and to enter on summit diplomacy only after careful preparation. They now fear that Kennedy...
...Yanki No." In the depressed northern Brazil town of Caruarú, hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four-barreled (4,000 rounds per minute) Czech anti-aircraft guns, Soviet T-34 tanks, and heavy artillery so much in evidence at the Bay of Pigs...
Some wore long Johns and sucked oranges for energy. Others, bundled in sweaters, jumped up and down to keep warm in the 38° chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times...
...Flow. McNamara's chill ways with Pentagon brass and the press win him few warm friends. He lost most of those when he began carrying out Kennedy's injunction to run the Pentagon from the top down. As often as not, he turned to his top civilian assistants (see box), rather than to military professionals, for advice. "The ideas," as one veteran bureaucrat said, "came from the top.'' The work of the Chiefs of Staff in the decision-making over such key questions as the size of the retaliatory force and the role of conventional warfare...