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...their illusions, even when those illusions are scraped away by the sharp edges of reality. For John F. Kennedy, that process has been going on painfully since Inauguration Day. Last week, when a U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba went catastrophically awry, the young President got a lesson about the peril of holding onto his illusions...
...countries under the Red flag, India would be dangerously outflanked-pinned down to the east, as it is already bedeviled to the north by Red China. Indonesia, already softened by Communist incursions, would be easy plucking. Malaya and Singapore could become steppingstones for further Communist expansion, to the ultimate peril of Australia and New Zealand...
...Loses Legs. Some style books draw exquisitely fine beads on proper form. The Salt Lake City Tribune explains the distinction between three cupfuls of sugar and three cups full of sugar, and softly suggests the typographical peril in such words as "shot, suit, short, shift, skit, etc." The Detroit News confidently calls a girl a girl until she reaches 21, when she becomes a woman; at 17 a boy becomes a youth, at 21 a man. "Beware of such relative descriptions as elderly, aged or old," says the Washington Post and Times Herald. "Few men under 70 would appreciate those...
...Kissinger joins in the urgent warning that the buildup of Russian missile strength calls for a drastic overhaul of U.S. defense policy. While somewhat nervously overstating the imminent peril of the missile gap ( TIME. Feb. 17). Kissinger argues convincingly that U.S. forces, in order to deter, must be able to absorb a first strike and still retaliate with the promise of damage which the Soviets will find unacceptable...
...distant peril was in Angola, that sleeping Portuguese colony that thought itself most immune to Africa's winds of change. Correspondents Robert Morse and James Burke were among the reporters who decided to stay around Angola after the high-seas adventure of the Santa Maria story ended. They were thus on hand to report Angola's worst racial flare-ups, in which nearly 40 were killed (see FOREIGN NEWS). Some of the perils of reporting Angola last week: one reporter critically injured; four expelled, and the films made by all cameramen (including Burke) mysteriously tampered with in Lisbon...