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...pondered Fidel, Che also pondered the objectives of the revolution he was fighting. Out of his own catch-as-catch-can Marxist reading, Che proceeded to map out Cuba's first true, peasant-based social revolution. He plotted total destruction of the old political and economic system, under which U.S. investors owned one-third of Cuba's largest crop (sugar), and the country was run by a tough and crooked former army sergeant, Fulgencio Batista. Che proposed to nationalize industry and agriculture, to reorganize that traditional prop of Cuban political power, the army, and to cut Cuba...
...Bailey and Washington Lawyer Jim Rowe, representing Vice-Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson, hurried to Hyannisport for a series of alfresco strategy lessons. Each morning eight thickly padded green chaise longues were wheeled out onto Bobby's lawn and assembled in a circle, along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign. Bobby and Steve stripped to the waist to absorb the sun along with the strategy...
...regular runs, still found they were able to take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually find you've left somebody back in the city...
...July 1 was destined to become a brief but acrimonious international incident. The plane was an RB-47, the reconnaissance version of the Air Force's workhorse medium jet bomber. It was scheduled to fly the routine ferret run off the Soviet Arctic coast, a triangular course (see map) around the Barents Sea plotted to keep the ferret plane at least 75 miles away from Soviet territory. At 3:03 p.m., upon reaching the appointed spot about 300 miles northeast of Norway's North Cape, the RB-47 signaled the start of its triangular patrol...
Earnest students of culture, the German campers efficiently map out their trips to the last detail, often spend a year planning their itinerary. In some cities, street hawkers do a thriving business renting clothes to hairy-legged Germans kept out of historic cathedrals by priests who consider Lederhosen unsuitable wear...