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...little ball." Last week, before turning the Colinas de Villareal Golf Club into a workers' social club, Castro and a couple of sidekicks decided to take a whack at the little white ball themselves. Castro clomped around the course in fatigues and combat boots, announced at the outset that he could beat President Kennedy. His right-hand man, "Che" Guevara, Moscow's favorite transplanted Argentine, allowed in turn that he himself was sure to beat Ike. Castro shot well over 150; Che won with a 127. Par for the course...
Kennedy is faced at the outset with a series of crises, and it is essential that he start off on the right diplomatic foot. Embassies, special emissaries, and channels of communication between governments exist, and there are sound reasons why they are preferable to personal diplomacy. It is not simply that Rusk is needed to coordinate policy in Washington, though that is also true. The question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they...
Although the picketing produced no violence, Boston Police kept a close watch on the proceedings, employing several mounted police and over a dozen officers to keep pedestrians and traffic moving. At the outset of the demonstrations they ordered the picketers away from the immediate entrance to the theatre, forcing them to form two ovals at the sides of the entrance...
Things look bright at the outset when Arthur and Guinevere meet romantically and talk of themselves and marriage and sing of Camelot's charms...
Gunnar Fischer, whose careful attention to photographic composition and perfect focussing has always been an aspect of Bergman's best work, has outdone himself in this film. Most impressive are the atmospheric shots at the film's outset and the ensuing carriage ride through the misty forest, immediately reminiscent of the ride to Elsinore in The Seventh Seal, but richer in texture and detail...