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...plane incident, President Kennedy made clear that "U.S. armed forces will employ all means necessary for their own protection," but at his press conference he insisted, "I think it would be a mistake to invade Cuba." Are there Russian troops in Cuba? asked a newsman. From the hem and haw of his response, Kennedy seemed to be working from abysmally poor intelligence reports. "We don't have cornplete information about what's going on in Cuba,"he said.* Itwas an explanation that satisfied no one. On Capitol Hill, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating said that...
Boss of the show is Marcos Behemara, about 34, a longtime Communist who once wrote Cuban television comedy scripts. "Guest stars" on his programs are the hemisphere Castrophiles, who, in the fashion of World War II's Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw, sometimes outdo even the Cuban Communists. Three times a week, Radio Habana turns its antennas directly at Guatemala for a rabble-rousing half-hour broadcast by Jacobo Arbenz, 48, the Red-lining ex-President of Guatemala who was overthrown eight years ago and now hopes to return via Cuba...
First Ride. Gary Cooper could have played Joe Walker. Walking as though he were wearing cowboy boots. Walker lards his speech with sounds like "Yup," "I reckon." and "Haw!" and claims that he is just "a physicist who travels." He grew up on a 200-acre farm near the Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Washington...
...Salt Lake City civil defense director told TIME: ''Some get right to the point; others hem and haw, but they all want to know-what do we do when we want to get to the toilet? At least people want to know something about life in a fallout shelter. A few months back they couldn't care less." The sheriff of Bade County, Florida, finds the county, including Miami, "totally unprepared for a nuclear attack," but now willing at least to listen to an occasional speech on the subject. ''They sit there for a half...
...your haw-haw-lier-than-thou reviewer's damning with faint puns Peter De Vries' Through the. Fields of Clover: for such a pun-stirrer to grind up De Vries' meaty message with half-witticisms of his own seems in wurst possible taste-particularly in such a notorious quip-joint as TIME...