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...Herbert Hoover, 89, at his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell...
Weight of Numbers. The words were among the most sensible any U.S. President has uttered about Latin America since Herbert Hoover proposed the Good Neighbor policy in 1928.* Until now, Inter-American Assistant Secretaries-including Mann himself in 1960-61-have been little more than a long, grey line of well-meaning but frustrated fellows. President Kennedy tried to solve the problem by sheer weight of numbers. In no particular order, and often simultaneously, he divided Latin American responsibility among the likes of old Roosevelt Brain-Truster Adolf A. Berle, Speechwriter Richard Goodwin (who coined the term Alliance for Progress...
...Although Franklin Roosevelt is usually given the credit and did indeed put it into practice, Hoover introduced the policy and the phrase during a pre-inaugural tour of Latin America...
Former President Dwig D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover both issued statements of sorrow in New York City. Former President Harry S. Truman said he was "shocked beyond words." Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston and a lifelong friend of the Kennedy family, said "This terrible tragedy has deprived our country of one of its greatest Presidents...
...clubs. Bizarre idiocy is also prevalent. L.S.U. coeds recently launched a "drawers raid" on a men's dormitory, and two Cornell fraternity teams played a 30-hour touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER IN 64 and WE SHALL OVERRUN. The University of Chicago's pitiful attempt to revive football was protested by purists saving ban-the-ball signs in Greek...