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...soft fog of irresolution that settled on the Kennedy Administration after the Cuba disaster, some vague and scattered signs of clearing were visible last week. "We're on the brink of a lot of things now," said a high-up White House aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing...
...insulted and jailed, forced to obtain "work permits" to say Mass, Cuba's foreign-born clergy -500 priests and 2,000 nuns-started pulling up stakes. One group of 300 nuns sailed away on the Spanish liner Cova-donga; another 28 found space on the ferry to West Palm Beach; others scrambled for seats on the airliners shuttling back and forth between Havana and Miami...
...sits in her red swing and listens to 1920s records. On weekends, she does dutifully the chores of a not-yet star: she packs up her 40-lb. dress and dances the Charleston (In Person!) at Kupcinet's Harvest Moon Festival in Chicago or at the annual Palm Springs Police Association Show. Occasionally she sneaks off to visit her parents in Seattle (her father is assistant manager of a men's club). Her parents have watched her show only two or three times during the past year, and in all that time, the TV set has been...
Rolling Money. There is no denying that, for the man in charge, Indonesia is a good place to get away from, these days. Prices have risen fourfold in the past seven years; the production of Indonesia's important palm-oil and rubber estates is down at least 30% compared to pre-World War II. Sugar, which used to be a major export, is now so scarce that in places it can be found only on the black market. The government's presses are rolling out paper money that has no backing. Bureaucracy is so rampant that 32 separate...
...conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...