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Like Communists everywhere, those in Cuba may not know how to run an economy or make the public happy, but they know how to hold control. A likelier possibility is a fallout among the factions who govern, and it is a U.S. worry that when it suits the Communists, Castro might be found murdered with a U.S. pistol lying near by. The same thought must trouble Castro, for he no longer moves around freely, unattended. Already assassination attempts have been reported against Brother Raul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...perform its duty--which is to govern--the mind must have been trained in such a way that nothing can escape its control: this implies enable to catch sound, isolated as as superimposed or in linear succession, to feel rhythm (I mean rhythm and not only bar division; this in its is a subject which would require less comments), and eventually make the complex structure of the work as a whole perceptible...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: To Organize Time: A Sketch of Nadia Boulanger | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...held in the Pacific, a nuclear bomb is a marvelous device. "There's hardly anything more technically fascinating to contemplate than a bomb," he says. "It's a little universe unto itself, one in which we don't know the detailed physical laws which govern it." When he waited on a dark New Mexico mountainside to watch the world's first atomic bomb explode 17 years ago, Ogle was elated. "It was the biggest dawn we'd ever seen," he recalls. "A fantastic moment. When it was over, I felt a sense of great relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: U.S. TEST DIRECTOR | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...when squabbling broke out among the leaders, notably KANU'S grey-bearded Jomo ("Burning Spear'') Kenyatta. 72. and solemn Ron ald Ngala, 39, president of KADU,* and since 1961 top African in the Kenya cabinet. Though Kenyatta and Ngala will jointly head Kenya's interim govern ment, they sounded like enemies. Bragged Ngala to his supporters on arrival: "KADU has emerged triumphant and has won out against Kenyatta.'' Old Jomo had a sneering retort: "We would have returned with Kenya's complete independence if it hadn't been for KADU leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Cooperation? | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...generals and admirals were adamant. The Per&243;nistas, though democratically elected in one of the freest elections in Argentine history, must never take office. In no position to resist, Frondizi agreed, and found the powers in the constitution to make it legal.* He then appointed "interventors" to govern five Argentine provinces, including populous, highly industrialized Buenos Aires, fired his civilian Cabinet and proposed a new coalition government, half of whose members would be military men. When Frondizi took this enforced solution to the People's Radicals, whose support he would need in the fractured Congress, they refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Ghost from the Past | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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