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...After the 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...
...elected for salvation, Calvin held, lack of baptism could not keep him from it, and if he was damned to hell, baptism could not save him. Beginning with Thomas Aquinas, Catholics began to consign unbaptized children to a fringe of hell called Limbo (from the Latin limbus, meaning hem or border), in which they exist in a state as happy as possible for worldly creatures but are denied for all eternity the supreme happiness of heaven...
...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...
...chiffon overlayers. Goma's collection-the theme is "looping the loop"- shows wasp waists and a high bustline. Griffe, who claims to have "rediscovered woman," calls his shape the "jet line," fans permanent pleating out from just underneath the arms or from mid-front and back to the hem. Jacques Heim's spiral silhouette whirls across the body with slanting and circular seams; coats are flat in front with voluminous gusts of cape. Guy LaRoche fits his dresses loosely, lets his diagonal seams gently tube the body; his sleeveless evening gowns spin to the floor...
...gardists once more leading his own fierce assault on his own unyielding terms. Avantgarde, with Genet, is in part millenniums-old ancien regime. His originality rests on the very origins of theater, on ritual and ceremony, magic and masks; his modernity lies in how he reshapes, distorts, sophisticates, extends hem. Of all this The Blacks-a white nan's often extraordinary venture into Negro fantasy and psychology-is strong-y compacted...