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...about on a phone (visible), plotting revenge on Tilly Siegal. Most of the time Alfie and Tilly manage to obscure Affair's most serious defect, which is that it works so terribly hard to provide a merely adequate evening's entertainment. One innovation is pleasing: the choruses depart from the epicene standard of Broadway musicals; the members, in fact, look a great deal like people...
...Rules permit saddle bronc riders to keep one hand on the rein; most use the left, claim it gives them better balance and control. Conditioned to lefthanded riders, some horses depart from their normal bucking pattern, behave unpredictably when ridden by a righthander...
Fidel Castro demands the return of the Harvard spiders to Cuba. "They belong to the people of Cuba. We have expropriated them in absentia," Castro insists. He appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
Most good will visits are forgotten as soon as the dignitaries depart, the confetti is swept up, and the trucked-in crowds are trucked back where they came from. But President John Kennedy's three-day foray into Latin America seemed to be leaving a somewhat more lasting imprint. Those who saw him, in Caracas and Bogota, appeared genuinely touched by his charm, his obvious good intentions, his interest in them, and his pretty young wife. But more important, they-and indeed the entire hemisphere-responded to a message he brought...
...that will last forever." Wherever he went in his week's journey, from the plains of Texas to the office of President Kennedy, to the final, bewildering stopover in Manhattan. Bashir continued to drop his petals and to charm the natives. Finally, just as he was about to depart from the U.S. on his jet-propelled magic carpet ride back to Pakistan, Bashir got a telegram from Lyndon Johnson that moved him to tears. Wired L.B.J.: "Since your return to Pakistan takes you so close to Mecca, arrangements have been made through the People-to-People program...