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Mitchell's answer was baffling: "The President cannot deal with all of the mun dane problems that go on from day to day. He had to deal with the greater problems." But then he made his point: "He should not have been involved in these matters that bore directly upon his election, and he should have been protected from the knowledge of them...
...instead of falling into the assembly line of Social Realism, Babel fell into one of the noisiest silences in the history of modern Russian literature. Some of the reasons for Babel's failure to fulfill his production quotas are touched on by Ilya Ehrenburg, Lev Nikulin, Georgy Mun-blit and Konstantin Paustovsky, writers and former friends of the author. Their reminiscences compose most of the generous appendix to You Must Know Everything, a collection of newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches gathered and annotated by Nathalie Babel, the author's daughter and dedicated literary...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
Until that day comes, the art lover never can tell what happy or unhappy surprises await him on each new visit to his favorite museum. Sir Alfred Mun-nings, the late president of London's Royal Academy, once put the point in verse. On returning to a museum, wrote Mun-nings, a man "may discover, too late, alas! that a change has befallen
Something Done. Last week Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek echoed Munñoz' thesis in a letter to Ike. The language was that of diplomacy, but the meaning was plain: "The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority. Nonetheless, it would be hardly feasible to conceal the fact that, before world public opinion, the ideal of Pan American unity...