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Died. C. (for Charles) Wright Mills, 46, angriest of the U.S.'s younger sociologists, a burly, motorcycle-riding Columbia University professor from Texas, who roused widespread ire with his jeremiads about the U.S. middle class (White Collar) and its upper class (The Power Elite), contended that "there are more men of knowledge in the service of men of power than men of power in the service of knowledge," recently wrote an emotional apologia for Castro titled Listen, Yankee; of a heart attack; in Nyack...
...virtually from scratch. President Kennedy long ago gave up any idea of testing from the familiar sites at Bikini and Eniwetok because of their small size, the proximity of populated islands and the inhibiting fact that the U.S. administers both atolls by U.N. mandate -a point that roused international ire during past tests...
This political pressure, weighed against word from Bonn's ambassador in Washington that neither the White House nor the State Department was unduly concerned with Kroll's call at the Kremlin, softened the Chancellor's ire. All right, he agreed, Herr Kroll could return to his Moscow post. But, he added, there were to be absolutely no more talks without advance approval. As he headed for Washington, his own position on Berlin apparently unchanged, Adenauer was serene...
...room apartment, Evtushenko looks, and at times sounds, rather like a beat Keats. Though he produces periodic Party paeans on such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that raised official blood pressures was about a low-life nihilist-"He wore narrow trousers/ He read Hemingway"-who in the poem's climax loses his life trying to save a drowning comrade. This, to Marxist critics, is "poetic dishonesty...
...they are old and broken down; maybe Mrs. Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser under the ire of the White House's youngest staffer: "Hours of painstaking care must be taken to remove antique paper from old plaster walls...Anyone willing to contribute this amount of time and expense is to be commended...