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Seeds of Disaster. The dragon seeds of last week's disaster were sown as far back as mid-1960. By then the Eisenhower Administration had overcome its original benefit-of-the-doubt attitude toward Castro, concluded that Cuba was being turned into a Communist base for subversion of Latin America, and started looking for ways to bring Castro down. Direct intervention was ruled out, barred by a natural distaste for it, by a fear of raising the old cries of Yankee imperialism, and by specific U.S. pledges under the treaty of the Organization of American States. Refugees from Castro...
...Dragon Slaying. Europe's airlines are vigorously pushing "Tour the U.S.A." as a virtually untapped source of revenue. Many airlines are tying up with U.S. airlines and bus companies and hotels to offer Europeans packaged tours of the U.S. Scandinavian Airlines System is setting up seminars in key European cities to brief travel agents on how to sell tourists on the U.S. Air France has launched an intensive "Visit U.S.A." advertising campaign, has handed out more than 100,000 handsome color brochures of the U.S. British Overseas Airways Corp. is making a movie of scenic spots...
...lure European tourists to the U.S., the airlines have set out to crush one of Europe's most cherished myths: that a traveler must have a gold-lined pocket to visit the U.S. So far, KLM has done most of the dragon slaying. Its agents are pushing a clever little booklet called Een Handige Budget-Baedeker. To potential travelers the Budget-Baedeker gives helpful tips on where to find bargains in New York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture...
...Brainwashed." But the truth was that all day plans were being laid for violence. In one nearby town, the mayor publicly offered to go bail for anybody arrested. Athens (pop. 20,000) filled with rednecks from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life...
Obstacle? With those two basic positions stated, the rest of the debate turned on restatements of old positions. Kennedy tossed a low blow by recalling that Grand Dragon William J. Griffin of the Ku Klux Klan had indicated that he was going to vote for Nixon ("I do not suggest in any way that that indicates that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy or involvement . . .") Nixon hedged on answers to questions on nuclear disarmament and control and labor policy by announcing that he would shortly deliver major speeches on these topics...