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...containing stuffed birds, where the electric, turquoise-shaded feathers of the Spangled Cotinga bird contrast with the Brazilian Tanager’s deep red feathers. To the right of these spectacular birds, mounted on the wall in a somewhat less flashy display box, are dozens of shells of Cuban land snails. The perfectly spaced rows and columns draw attention to the mesmerizing symmetry and subtle differences in shading among the shells. Each turn in the gallery provides something more brilliant, exotic, and impressive than what lay behind, from the graceful sweeping plumage of the Resplendent Quetzal to the full zebra...
DIED Richard Stephen Heyser, whose photos of Soviet nuclear-weapons sites ignited the Cuban missile crisis, once told the Associated Press that he was relieved not to have become the person who started World War III. As a U.S. Air Force major, Heyser flew the U-2 spy plane that took the famous pictures. Those photos prompted President John F. Kennedy to announce in October 1962 that the Soviet Union was building secret missile sites 90 miles (about 150 km) from Florida's coast. A tense standoff with the Soviets ensued. Heyser later won three Distinguished Flying Crosses...
...flat during the campaign. It was hard to tell what he thought ideologically. And how he behaved in office, of course, was different in those terms ... I was just trying to think of examples of moments that have become kind of our iconic moments of ideal presidential temperament. The Cuban missile crisis seems to be one. [Franklin] Roosevelt's first 100 days, I would argue, particularly because so many people are making comparisons with the present day, is another one that I think [is] often held up as a moment in which temperament, personality, the ability to lead and remain...
...through an economic crisis hardly anyone understands? Not only can't you know what a President will face, but his reflexes in one crisis may not be typical of how he responds to another. President Kennedy's temperament has been defined by his ingenuity and cool head during the Cuban missile crisis. "That's not necessarily representative of how he was during his Administration," notes historian David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, citing the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and race relations. "There was a tendency to put off decisions, whether it was foreign or domestic policies...
...Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, a Cuban-American refugee, addressed the relationship between his former home and his current one, blaming Cuban officials for poor relations between the two countries at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening. “The last fifty years have been [one of] the greatest social disasters of our time,” Gutierrez said in reference to the tense relations between the United States and Cuba as well as the human rights abuses committed by the Cuban government towards its people. Gutierrez arrived in the United States in the 1960s, when he learned...