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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pigs veteran who spent 20 hard months in Havana and Isle of Pines prisons, I was most interested in your brilliant Essay [July 30]. The main reason for our defeat was Kennedy's indecisiveness under pressure, a longtime ill in U.S. foreign policy arising from the country's lack of long-term planning and definition of ultimate objectives. Unfortunately, our enemies do not have this lack of continuity in foreign policy. They have defined their goal quite clearly: to conquer the world by any means at their disposal. FRANCISCO JOSE DE VARONA Gainesville...
...good side of the news about the U.S. Johnson says he wants the same thing, though it can be argued that the Voice of America should not go out of its way to reflect the criticism of U.S. policies so regularly published in many newspapers and magazines. "Our main weapon is our freedom to make our own mistakes and solve our own problems out in the open," says Chancellor. "We can't be Buddha-like...
...week verified what Mrs. Petit and other housewives were noticing at the check-out counter. The Labor Department reported that the consumer price index in June scored the biggest in crease in the past two years, rising by one-half of 1%, to 110.1% of the 1957-59 average. Main ingredients in this rise were meat, which climbed 6.1% between April and June, and vegetables...
Feeding the Demagogues. Why do commodity prices boom and bust, gutting whole economies, while industrial prices glide up? The main reason is that commodity supplies are largely unpredictable, depend chiefly on the weather. International marketing agreements that could bring stability have been hard to negotiate and harder still to enforce. Castro upset the world sugar pact; the world coffee agreement is riddled with holes, and cocoa producers have repeatedly failed to agree on quotas and prices...
...what about that trauma and stress? "He's still living with an arthritic elbow," warns Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Dodgers' physician, "but it has responded to medication." The main medicament has been cortisone. As part of his therapy, Koufax regularly packs his elbow in ice for one hour following every game, throws only lightly on his days off, and refrains from tossing sidearm pitches, which put extra strain on the elbow...