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TIME asked Jones to paint his own impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek...
...said a high-up White House aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing Kennedy's offer to aid South Viet Nam with new infusions of money and advisers in its struggle against Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare (see following story...
...some kind of journalistic record for coverage and noncoverage. Rarely have supposedly secret preparations gotten so much advance public notice. Then when the pathetically unprepared force stormed ashore, there were no correspondents along; much of the news of the fighting had to be put together from such faraway places as Miami and Guatemala. TIME's Havana correspondent, like the other U.S. newsmen in the Cuban capital, could file nothing: some reporters were rounded up by Castro's security agents; TIME's man found temporary haven in an embassy...
...Kremlin: "If we all keep our heads and do nothing provocative, we can find a way out of our problems in Laos." For 90 minutes Khrushchev and Thompson went over the Soviets' long-delayed reply to the Anglo-U.S. offer of negotiated peace in the faraway Southeast Asia state that is sundered by Communist attack. The Soviets accepted the proposal, more or less, announcing their decision in a note to London, and agreed to join Britain in an "appeal for a cessation of hostilities in Laos...
...come sooner rather than later by naively letting the Russians know that the new team wanted a six-month lull in the cold war while it thought through its policies. Then, while Khrushchev toured the outer reaches of Russia, Communist guerrillas gobbled up a significant part of the tiny, faraway but significant Kingdom of Laos...