Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Jack Kennedy should have set such standards. For his own credentials to presidential greatness certainly do not rest on success in achieving his objectives or in getting significant legislation through Congress. By his own terms, Kennedy's marked successes can be counted all too quickly: the Cuba missile confrontation, the nuclear test ban treaty, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the Peace Corps. No one, of course, can say what he might have accomplished had he lived out his first term and been re-elected to a second. As it is, Kennedy's biggest achievement lies...
Kahn's abstract analysis fits only those international crises which are similarly "abstract;" the direct confrontations between nuclear superpowers which revolve around relatively non-ideological issues such as Berlin or missiles in Cuba. The danger, which we see unfolding in Vietnam, is that Kahn's approach will be used in situations where to ignore concrete reality is to play with disaster...
Died. Florence Pritchett Smith, 45, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1957-59) and Kennedy Friend Earl E.T. Smith, onetime Powers model (at age 14), radio commentator (This Is Florence Pritchett), TV panelist (Leave It to the Girls) and, most recently, New York Journal-American food columnist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Buying from Cuba. At issue is a U.S. order, invoked in August by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, that effectively bans U.S. imports of any products containing Le Nickel's metal. In the past month customs inspectors in New York City and elsewhere have impounded six shipments of French stainless steel containing nickel that had presumably been supplied by Le Nickel...
Washington says that it has banned Le Nickel products from the U.S. because the company made a deal in July to buy 33 million Ibs. of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. The ban is based on the U.S. law prohibiting imports of products made from Cuban materials. Compounding the affront to the U.S. is the fact that Le Nickel agreed to purchase its nickel oxide from Cuba's Nicaro plant, a rich source that had been owned by the U.S. Government and operated by National Lead Co. until Castro expropriated...