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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type of cattle chute-parallel lines of wire fencing some 300 yards long-through which the 2,300 Cuban civilians who work on the base were forced to pass. At 7 a.m. on Monday, as the first workers arrived, the shakedown began. Some men were stripped naked, each item of clothing carefully inspected for "documents." Others had their shirts or pants removed. Some were forced to kneel as tough Cuban guards emptied their pockets, spat at them, and shouted such things as "Why do you work for the Yankee bastards?" The inspection took 2% hours before all the Cubans...
This brief item appeared in a 1957 book that belongs on any alltime worstseller list: The Blauvelt Family Genealogy. It was one of some 25,000 capsule biographies, taking up 1,100 pages, of the descendants of Gerrit Hendricksen (who later became known as Blauvelt), a Dutchman who helped settle New York in 1638. Yet it was to set off a great search-one that tried to distinguish between fact and fiction, between records and rumors. For in its deadpan way, the item plainly said that John Kennedy had been married secretly to someone before he wed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
...press for staying silent. Last Sept. 2, recognition in a mass U.S. publication was given for the first time to the fact that the question even existed. The Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 10 million) published a reader's letter asking about the truth of the Blauvelt genealogical item; Parade's answer was a flat refutation. London's huge Sunday papers, including the respectable Sunday Telegraph and Observer, promptly picked up the Parade question-and-answer as a way of getting the story into print...
...President James Monroe is part of that record.* President Monroe sat for Stuart in Boston early in July 1817, four months after he had taken office in his first term, and while he was on a trip inspecting military installations. The Essex Register of Salem, Mass., in an item from Boston dated July 10. 1817, reported (using a sometime spelling of the painter's name): "Early the last three mornings, previous to his departure, the President has had sittings at Mr. Stewart's room." The Newburyport Herald later shed more light on the trouble a President would take...
...with more than 5,000 members and local chapters known as "reels") and correspond with each other by tape. Most of them are strenuous collectors of gadgets-head demagnetizers, bulk erasers, splicers-and tend to value a performance in direct ratio to how rare it is. A currently prized item: Pianist Glenn Gould playing Brahms's D Minor Concerto with the New York Philharmonic this spring-and Conductor Leonard Bernstein's speech disclaiming any responsibility for the performance...