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...total, implacable war," face to face Castro is strictly realistic. Questioned about the possibility that Batista might crush the rebels' proposed general strike, he said: "If Batista loses, he loses for good; if I lose, I will just start over again." If he wins, Castro says, he proposes freer labor unions, a crackdown on corruption and punishment for government "criminals"-including bringing Batista to book. These measures imply a great deal of control over Cuba's future by Fidel Castro. He denies all presidential (or dictatorial) ambitions: "I can do more for my country giving an example...
...season at London's Covent Garden. The company expertly paraded such gorgeous old floats as Swan Lake and Giselle, but was peppered by the critics for the lack of imagination and heaviness of its scattered newer works. Back home, Russian choreographers petitioned the Ministry of Culture for a freer hand, and surprisingly, the Ministry agreed that "the many-sided variety of Soviet life is insufficiently reflected in ballet." Spartacus, music by Aram Khachaturian and choreography by Igor Moiseyev, scarcely intends to hold the mirror up to Soviet life, but it opens the window on a gaudy, gamy world rarely...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair ("Sinny") Weeks once dismayed partisans of freer world trade by publicly labeling himself a "protectionist." That was five years ago. Last week chunky, mild-mannered Secretary Weeks, 64, rock-ribbed Massachusetts Republican of the old school that traditionally considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, stomped in out of a snowstorm to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee. He was there as the Administration's chief spokesman for what may be 1958's most bitterly fought legislative proposal: the bill to promote freer trade by 1) extending the reciprocal trade act for five years...
...President must keep this authority because the interest of a particular industry must be weighed against the national interest. Last week this viewpoint got an unexpected boost from the six-man Tariff Commission itself. Louisiana's Representative Hale Boggs, one of Capitol Hill's most ardent freer-traders, asked the commission members, seated together below the Ways and Means Committee's walnut dais, whether they thought their escape-clause recommendations ought to be final. Commission Chairman Edgar B. Brossard mugwumped, but the other five members all said no. Commented Boggs: for Congress to pass the Simpson proposal...
Viewed by more than 100,000 gallerygoers yearly, the Freer Chinese bronze collection includes axes, swords and daggers, basins, wine cups and pitchers, clapperless bells, mirrors and food vessels. Freer had accumulated 725 pieces; John Ellerton Lodge, the first director, and his successor Archibald Wenley, added some 140 more, stuck rigidly to Freer's high standards. Experts estimate that some of the bronzes go back to the Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). While their quality and style vary, Alan Priest, Far East curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts all in a single category: "Magnificent...