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...occasionally into the blinding sunlight of sanity, then plunges again into the pit. She believes there can never be any cure, because what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed," he tells Istina. "I want you to stay...
Perhaps as damaging to Seeger as the frontal attack by the HUAC has been the insidious effect of an uncritical press--a notable current example was the Boston Daily Record--which prints allegations as fact, or alternatively attempts to stay away from controversy by labelling him as "the controversial folk singer." As the University so ably demonstrated three weeks ago, "controversial" has become an evil word in America. It has become a facile way of saying, "Some powerful people say he's a Communist and I haven't got the guts to say otherwise...
...ashore, but were usually waved aside. But the Frente was becoming a big enterprise. Estimates of how much money was pumped into the Frente for recruiting centers and other political expenses vary from $130,000 monthly to a high of $520,000 last December. As the plans for a frontal invasion took shape, CIA men went to Guatemala and arranged with Rancher-Businessman Roberto Alejos* to use three of his properties-coffee plantations named Helvetia and La Suiza near the town of Retalhuleu, and a cotton farm called San José Buenavista, 35 miles from the Pacific port...
...Frontal Assault. Even before his inauguration, John Kennedy tried a frontal assault on the problem, called Congressman Rooney down to Palm Beach (TIME, Jan. 6) for a day of consultation. Result: Rooney promised to give specific help in needy cases, among them Ambassador to Paris James Gavin, who has no personal fortune. But Rooney promised no relief for U.S. junior diplomats, who pick up a large share of the entertainment tabs. In India. 64 U.S. Information Service officers share $4,700 a year for line-of-duty hospitality. In New York, where junior-grade careermen do not get even...
Castro accused the U.S. of staging the attack, raged that it was the prelude to direct, frontal invasion by "North American imperialists." Raúl Roa, Castro's U.N. delegate, popped up to demand that the General Assembly consider the anti-U.S. charges immediately, was eagerly backed by the Soviet Union. Adlai Stevenson, for the U.S., denied all, and cited the Cuban markings on the planes...