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Bomber Threat. The next day, according to an agreement quietly worked out by the U.S. and Russia, there occurred in the seas off Cuba one of the strangest scenes in maritime history. U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings that covered the long, cylindric objects on the decks. Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester declared that "responsible people of this Government" were convinced that the ships were indeed carrying missiles back to the Soviet Union...
...ragged column of Nazi conscripts marching toward Poland was suddenly startled when a middle-aged recruit dropped out of line, turned around, and started marching homeward at the same tempo. A sergeant barked at him to stop, but Painter Werner Gilles replied mildly and matter-of-factly, "That blackbird up in that tree just told me, 'No, no, Gilles, this can come to no good.' " In time, Adolf Hitler's army psychiatrists sent Gilles back to the safety of civilian life, but for the painter the talking blackbird had been as real as the barking sergeant...
...toast their sweethearts with this bland fluid? Does the Government christen its boats with a magnum of milk? Has any true American male, homeward bound, ever tarried in his favorite bar to down a beaker of milk on the rocks ? Have you ever tried to warm the frigid inner man with a cool goblet of milk-homogenized or otherwise...
Last week Brazil's mercurial ex-President Jânio Quadros was homeward bound, by the slowest possible means. In Hong Kong he boarded a freighter that is not scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro until March 9. Already, however, Brazilians were getting that old familiar feeling-"Here Comes Jânio." In northeastern Maranhāo state, a federal deputy announced the formation of a national front to return Jânio Quadros to control of the nation he deserted five months ago in a tantrum against congressional obstruction. Quadros had been chosen President ten months earlier...
Died. Ruth Chatterton, 67, diminutive, honey-haired jack-of-all-arts who became a Broadway star at 21 in Henry Miller's Daddy Long-Legs, a Hollywood star at 34 in Sins of the Fathers, and a bestselling novelist at 56 with Homeward Borne; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Gracious of manner and restless of mind, thrice-married Ruth Chatterton spent more than a decade as one of Hollywood's leading ladies making such films as Dodsworth and Madame X, then returned to the stage to score solid triumphs in The Constant Wife and Pygmalion, still...