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...exactly a year after the Bay of Pigs, is following a conspicuous game of "look, no hands." The Kennedy Administration, once burned on Cuba, puts little faith in the wishful theories that Castro might be helped in his fight with the Communists, or converted into a Caribbean Tito. Maverick expeditions to Castroland from Florida are headed off; the exile counter-plotters have dispersed-the CIA seeks them out occasionally to see what they are up to, but offers no real help. A few two-and three-man CIA expeditions land in Cuba to bury containers of weapons for possible future...
Died. Arsenic H. Lacson, 49, maverick mayor of Manila (pop. 1,200,000) since 1951, a fiery reformer who became during three popularly elected terms what Philippine President Macapagal recently called a "national sentinel of public morality"; of a stroke; in Manila. Peppery Mayor Lacson-a former boxer, guerrilla fighter, lawyer, political-science professor, Congressman and newspaper columnist-cleaned up his tatterdemalion metropolis and became an acerbic presidential critic who crushed his Nacionalista Party mate, ex-President Carlos Garcia, and then started sniping at Liberal President Macapagal, whom he helped to power...
Oregon's maverick Democratic Senator Wayne Morse is a teetotaler who believes in preaching what he practices. In the Senate last week he rose up to denounce the "desecration of the buildings belonging to the taxpayers." Cried Morse: "There is a growing social pattern of holding affairs in rooms in the Capitol and in the Senate Office Buildings at which hard liquor is served. In my opinion it cannot be justified. It ought to be stopped forthwith ... I will not knowingly attend such an affair, and if I find myself in such an affair and hard liquor is being...
Casting a statistical horoscope for the U.S., Treyz came up with the none-too-startling fact that the Great Mass Market lay in the "young postwar families who want excitement." Treyz's pioneer entry into the mass-excitement field was Maverick, an hour-long western. He flew to Hawaii personally to sell the show to Henry J. Kaiser, and soon bullets were ricocheting merrily off mantelpieces from coast to coast. Treyz's first great masterpiece of programming, however, came with 77 Sunset Strip-the series that gave Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes and his pomade-raking pocket comb...
...Angeles' Samuel William Yorty, 52, is a maverick liberal turned conservative, whose close election ten months ago was considered a fluke. Politically ambitious, he has been learning his job while staying aloof from fellow Democrats, who are skeptical of his political leanings, and Republicans, who are pleased that he is a conservative. To him, "the West is still the land of opportunity," and, like most Angelenos, he was born "back East"-in Lincoln...