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...magazine field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
False Position. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who had been telling U.S. audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...
...sent to Tito. Wayne said that he is a partner in Arias' shrimp business. Dame Margot flew to New York, then quickly hurried on home to England and mother. Tito ducked into the safety of Panama City's Brazilian embassy, his bullet ballet a flop. The very day he sought cover, a 55-ft. boat shoved its nose into a sandy beach on the Caribbean side of the isthmus and unloaded 50 men-apparently members of a Tito invasion force, trained in western Cuba...
...picked up Spain, but Spain's Nanny said she had internal troubles and must sit this one out. England looked towards the Oslo group, but they had never played before, except little Belgium, who had hated it, and the others felt shy. The party looked like being a flop, and everybody was becoming very much bored, especially the Americans who are so fond of blood and entrails...
...cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon. Symbolic items in the Secretary of State's baggage: 1) a flop-brimmed straw hat that "cost about $1.98," and 2) a Brooks Brothers shirt box stuffed with paperback mysteries...