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...Artime, a leader in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, now operates out of Central America, is believed to have some dozen torpedo boats armed with 57-mm. recoilless rifles and other weapons. Two other exile possibilities: the smaller November 30 Organization, which says it shelled a Cuban freighter homeward-bound from Canada two weeks ago; and the Comandos Mambises, which claims to have attacked a Russian vessel in the Cuban port of Cabanas early this month...
Died. Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, 56, patron saint of all G.I.s, who in 1959, as commander of U.S. forces in Japan, recalled a homeward-bound airliner, personally removed a rank-pulling lieutenant colonel, his wife and four children, and placed back on board the six emergency-furloughed enlisted men "bumped" by the vacationing colonel; after a long illness; in San Antonio...
PHILIP EVERGOOD-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd. American-born, English-educated (Eton, Cambridge). Evergood saturates his paintings with biting wit and sharp social commentaries. His sensuous figures are caught in a Rabelaisian revelry of human rapacity and foolishness. Among the oils, watercolors and drawings: a wistful Look Homeward, Marilyn. Through...
...Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child...
...final scene on the train, Anna and Johan are homeward-bound, and the boy fingers a letter from his aunt. "Words in a foreign language-" begins...