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...dared by novelists, it was well within Khrushchev's flair for macabre melodrama. In this baleful light, it became completely clear to Kennedy that the U.S. had no course but to squash the Soviet missile buildup. But how? In his long, soul-trying talks with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, State Secretary Dean Rusk, the CIA's McCone and other top civilian and military officials, the plan was arduously worked out. Direct invasion of Cuba was discarded-for the time being. So was a surprise bombing attack on the missile sites. Both methods might cause Khrushchev to strike back...
...Anderson went the job of setting up the blockade with ships and planes and making it work. While the Bay of Pigs fiasco had involved heltery-skeltery White House amateurs, now the pros were taking over. Anderson worked closely with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and with McNamara, who had been eating and sleeping, in the Pentagon...
Gromyko's attitude was not new, and suggested stalemate rather than crisis. Barring the existence of some unknown intelligence reports or private revelation, all the Washington warnings-by the President, Bobby Kennedy, Rusk, Defense Secretary McNamara et al.-were not based on anything concrete. The closest thing to specific evidence was a month-old Tass statement, which suggested that Moscow was willing to be patient about signing a peace treaty with East Germany until after the U.S. elections. The danger in Berlin remains real enough at all times, but it also happens to fit in neatly with the Kennedy...
State Dean Rusk expressed grave concern over Berlin to virtually every visiting foreign minister at the U.N.; Defense Secretary Robert McNamara issued a public warning that nuclear arms, if necessary, would be used by the U.S. to maintain Western rights in the surrounded city...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:05 p.m.). Clifton Webb, Dorothy Maguire, Louis Jourdan, Jean Peters, Maggie McNamara and Rossano Brazzi in Three Coins in the Fountain...