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Washington protested. The Swiss simply rejected the decree, calling it "unacceptable"-an attitude that seemed to take the Cubans by surprise. If Castro decides to use force to oust the Swiss from the building, the U.S. will probably hale Cuba before the U.N. and charge it with violating international...
BLACK SUMMER (312 pp.)-Nancy Hale-Little, Brown...
Novelist Nancy Hale specializes in exposes of the American family. In her finely chiseled novels and short stories, she has shown an unfailing eye for the intricacies of the ordinary household, the small gestures that lead to major disasters. Her latest novel is a delicately Freudian one about a family living in a swank small town north of New York...
...Bludgeoning & Blackmailing." With those persuasive political figures in mind, the Administration and the House Democratic leaders went to work. Majority Whip Hale Boggs and his staff, worried about Democrats who had already left for their Easter vacations, got on the phone, persuaded dozens, including six from California, to return for the vote. At White House urging, labor organizations, along with local-government groups, began calling and wiring Congressmen, telling them what the money would mean to the old home town. Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman inserted in the Congressional Record a 33-page list of all the communities that...
Last year, exiled Juan José Arévalo, 58, the Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter...