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Kennedy referred to complete, as opposed to nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the United Nations, felt that "the propagandist line came through quite clearly there." But Plank added that Kennedy used the General Assembly "precisely as it should be used"--to persuade people rather than hammer out programs...
...Hundreds of millions of people will perish" in a new war. he proclaimed early in the week, almost incoherent with excitement, as he waved his arms at a "friendship" rally in the Kremlin for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, visiting boss of Red Rumania. "There will be no open cities, no front, no rear, if nuclear bombs are unleashed." Khrushchev brutally promised to send rockets raining on Italy's orange groves if war came; he had also included Britain in his target area, and now, to the mocking laughter of the satellite sycophants around him, said, "As you know, the roar...
...last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous Summer, a chronicle of the 1959 Spanish bullfighting season excerpted last year in LIFE; recollections of the literary denizens of 1920s Paris; and a novel described by Hemingway himself as "a big one all about...
...apparently ceased altogether to worry about ideology. Bruce Chapman, the publisher, has for the moment settled the problem with a few familiar and comfortable phrases "Republicans seem to understand that the GOP must find imaginative, affirmative answers to current problems," he writes, "answers consonant with our traditional principles, or perish as a major political force...
...only required to sit exams twice: a preliminary test his first year and the big ordeal his third and final year. Unlike its American counterparts, the University displays little faith that men can be pressured into scholarship. This applies to faculty as well as undergraduates. The 'Publish or Perish' formula exists, but only to a limited extent...