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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background bears little similarity to his predecessors'-Edward Stettinius, Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson-all of whom were well-versed in foreign affairs before they went to the U.N., it seemed little cause for concern. Arthur Goldberg once said of the art of collective bargaining: "The main thing you must have is the ability to realize there are two sides to the story, and so to be generally calm and courteous in the handling of people in inflamed situations, but at the same time not to relinquish the position of leadership, which on occasion will require...
...Kennedy vetoed the original plan-approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff- for the exiles to land at Trinidad, a town on the southern coast of Cuba, 178 miles southeast of Havana with, as Schlesinger says, the "advantages of a harbor, a defensible beachhead, remoteness from Castro's main army, and easy access to the protective Escambray Mountains." But Kennedy thought a Trinidad landing would be "too spectacular...
...headed back to Ramstein, where he touched down at 6:05. Waiting for him was an agitated reception committee, including a representative of the French armed forces, who stalked away with the plane's baggage-175 undeveloped photographs, 28 of them containing detailed closeups of France's main hydrogen-bomb fuel plant at Pierrelatte...
...Quito and 170 miles away in the main port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...
...Thomas Francis Jr., the head of Michigan's epidemiology department, the team chose Tecumseh, Mich. (pop. 9,500), as typical of the U.S. heartland. Settled in 1824, the town has several industries, a busy main street and a fringe of farms. The researchers arrived in 1959, persuaded 8,600 residents, nine-tenths of the community, to give details of their past family and medical history and to visit a clinic where doctors took blood and urine samples, electrocardiograms, chest X rays, along with complete physical examinations. Then the doctors plotted the frequency of coronary, hypertensive, rheumatic and congenital heart...