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...Employ "whatever means may be necessary, including the use of arms, " to prevent the Castro regime from "extending by force or threat of force its aggressive or subversive activities to any part of this hemisphere...
Mistake to Invade. After the plane incident, President Kennedy made clear that "U.S. armed forces will employ all means necessary for their own protection," but at his press conference he insisted, "I think it would be a mistake to invade Cuba." Are there Russian troops in Cuba? asked a newsman. From the hem and haw of his response, Kennedy seemed to be working from abysmally poor intelligence reports. "We don't have cornplete information about what's going on in Cuba,"he said.* Itwas an explanation that satisfied no one. On Capitol Hill, New York's Republican...
...Shakespeare well knew, the sun's heat bred serpents and other monsters out of the mud of the Nile. With The Blue Nile, this ancient river of mystery has now been made the object of two studies that employ all the modern arts of research to dispel myths and muddy misconceptions. Alan Moorehead, an extraordinary journalist-turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods...
...think of doing anything architecturally far-out on Main Street somehow let their imaginations blossom when they get away from it for the summer. Within the past decade a diversity of new building materials has given the owner of the second house the chance to create new shapes, employ new methods of construction and invent new ways of blending outdoors and indoors...
...problem stumping MacLeish is that he is not certain about "the feelings of the characters for the myth within which they moving." The new play, he said, will employ the same four-beat line...