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...Hoping Can Hurt. Back in Washington, even with the increased authority provided by Johnson, Mann will find his new job a man killer. To succeed, time, money and genius are needed-and none of them are plentiful. Through Fidel Castro, the Communists are actively pushing violent revolution designed to grab half a dozen Latin American nations before Western-style democracy, fed by development, can take root. It is increasingly obvious that a policy of coexisting with Castro, while merely hoping that the governments he threatens will be strong enough to resist, hurts rather than helps. Thus, U.S. policy toward Cuba...
...thing he was looking for - "Acclaimed The World's Greatest Tenor" - but to his in finite horror, there, smiling out above the blurb, was Archrival Franco Corelli. Di Stefano reacted with the cool dignity for which he is famous throughout op era. "I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel's-hair coat and heading for the door...
...other professors are slower to scorn-and faster to ask why they themselves are failing to be the real campus heroes and pacesetters. Some profs are simply cowed: "There seems to be a genius under every rock." Or: "These kids grab you and tear you apart. They're always asking me what I believe." On balance, the new collegians get high marks from a faculty majority: "Who would have thought five year ago that Paul Tillich would be mobbed on this campus? I can't tell you how much pleasure it is now to meet a class...
With Indonesia's Dr. Subandrio, Rusk discussed the Malaysian crisis, but got little in the way of enlightenment from the elusive foreign minister. "It's like trying to grab a handful of oatmeal," said one aide...
...sending them back as Soviet saboteurs. Nonsense, replied the Russians; it was just an avalanche of starving refugees. Then the Kremlin launched its own attack, charged that Red Chinese military units and civilians had systematically violated the border 5,000 times during 1962 alone, and had tried to grab Soviet territory. What's more, protested Russia last week, innocent border tribesmen who have roamed back and forth across the Sinkiang frontier for centuries are being moved to the interior of Red China on the suspicion that they harbor pro-Soviet sympathies...