Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faculty opinion was mixed on the wisdom of yesterday's severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba. John N. Plank '45, instructor in Government, termed President Eisenhower's move "a pretty legitimate thing to do," while Luigi R. Einaudi and Nadav Safran, instructors in Government, criticized the Administration's decision...
Eisenhower's reference to the "historic friendship" between Cuba and the United States was ill-advised, Einaudi felt, since "it is the historic situation between the two countries that Castro has been attacking...
Einaudi and Safran, both members of the "Fair Play for Cuba" committee, felt that Eisenhower's move would handicap Kennedy. "Eisenhower should have held the line for at least sixteen days," Einaudi commented. Safran maintained that the move would tie Kennedy's hands and was therefore "unforgivable" at this time...
Safran emphasized the poor timing of the Administration's reprisal, referring to "indications that Cuba was beginning to make conciliatory, or at least half-conciliatory statements." He foresaw no dramatic change in policy by the Kennedy administration "but the possibility of a slow, gradual modification which would stop the situation from deteriorating further...
...around the earth. Khrushchev declines comment on reports that the space traveler is Mao Tse-tung. The United States, aiming for the moon, lands a man in the Congo.... Kennedy, in a televised press conference, announces that "this country is moving again." ....Eisenhower, in retirement publishes a book on Cuba called "Listen, C. Wright Mills!" Castro, whose vocabulary is becoming limited, denounces the work as a "provocation" ... Harvard still needs a Dean and a football coach...