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Cuban Challenge. Thus strengthened, and renamed OAS, this regional group proceeded to prove under Secretary General Lleras that it could work by handling minor disputes. The one thing that it never got was the intangible factor diplomats call "presence"-confident acceptance of the OAS by its members as the competent and natural body to handle big inter-American problems. Hindering such presence is the feeling that the OAS is dominated by the U.S. Lately, Cuba has added another handicap in the form of a deliberate anti-OAS campaign. Last month, calling the OAS Washington's "Ministry of Colonies...
...Adlai Factor. Often the greatest curiosity developed over Kennedy's likely choice as Secretary of State. Indians were excited by the talk that he might pick Chester Bowles, who as Ambassador to India was an ardent Nehru fan. For the same reason, many Pakistanis leaned toward Nixon. Said one Karachi newsman: "I get cold shivers every time I think of the specter of Chester Bowles peering over Kennedy's shoulder...
...Esthetic Factor. As U.S. voters have been known to do, many Europeans reached their choice by tortuous paths. Some Italian anticlericals favored Roman Catholic Kennedy because he would "tell off Cardinal Spellman and set an example to our own Christian Democrats." France's tabloid Paris-Jour, after rhapsodizing over Jackie Kennedy's French ancestry and artistic leanings, declared with evident approval that she "wishes to admit to the White House the Latin Quarter, the quays of the Seine and Montparnasse." The Quai d'Orsay remembered Kennedy's explosive 1957 speech calling for independence for Algeria...
...KNOW that I am important as a factor in the development of art and always will remain so," Dadaist Kurt Schwitters wrote in 1931. "I say this with all possible emphasis so that nobody afterwards can say: The poor man didn't even know how important he was.' " The Dadaists (among them Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst) took their name from a nonsense phrase, but thought they were making sense of a kind. In the disillusioned aftermath of World War I. Schwitters used the bric-a-brac of everyday life-fragments of newspapers, railroad maps, timetables...
...Navy, Thomas brought TWA back from the edge of failure. The year he took over, the line lost $1,764,000. Thomas revamped the management, clamped down on operating costs, rushed the new Boeing 7073 into service. Last year TWA earned $9,400,000, had the highest load factor in the industry. But like other TWA presidents (four since 1947), Thomas had his problems with Howard Hughes, 54, TWA's eccentric owner. Although Thomas once told friends that he was ready to wear the collar Hughes puts on his presidents, the collar chafed increasingly as Thomas and Hughes quarreled...