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Brandished Threats. Newsmen in the new State Department Auditorium sensed immediately that they were in for a torrid session. Glancing neither to left nor right, Kennedy marched to the stage, grimly be gan reading a statement that had been drafted by Goldberg, rewritten by Aide Ted Sorensen and changed in the last minutes by Kennedy himself. "In this serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes...
Suddenly Indonesia's delegate rose and left for home. It was just part of the dis rupting strategy of Indonesia's President Sukarno, whose military patrols soon be gan prowling New Guinea's coastline again. As for calling off the threat of in vasion, Sukarno chuckled, "Truly, I do not want to stop it, for it is a rolling snowball that will run down everything...
...indigenous Berber population of what is now Algeria has been there since history be gan. A stockily built, brown-haired, light-eyed people, they have bitterly opposed successive conquerors - Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and French. They always lost and always for the same reason: an almost Celtic inability to unite against a common foe. When the French landed in 1830, the Arab-Berbers of Algeria were as divided as ever, and the French found willing allies among the tribes. Even so, it took 40 years of hard fighting to subdue the country...
...Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever paid to a Broad way actor?" asked Gleason. Merrick said he thought it was $5,000 a week. Gleason demanded and got $5,050. He also insisted on an extra dressing room and a chauffeur-driven car. Once rehearsals be gan. Merrick grumbles, "he'd say if he couldn't have his way on this or that, 'I'll get sick.' " Temperamentally unsuited to the night-in-night-out routine of Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when it was still in Boston, but- bursting...
Leading off for the opposition, Michi gan's Dr. Sidney Bolter tried to rip off "the mask of insanity" which, he said, has covered too many criminals. He scoffed at colleagues who "visualize a Utopian chain of hospitals and clinics devoted to the 'treatment' of every individual who breaks the law." Habitual offenders, Dr. Bolter argued, are psychopaths, and nothing can be done with them except keep them in penal institutions; in mental hospitals they are misfits and hamper the treatment of other patients. "Psychiatrists," said...