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...that the Cuban disaster was a "collective responsibility" of the entire Administration, not just of the CIA. In response to a Castro declaration that Cuba is officially "Socialist," the State Department issued a statement saying that the Castro regime is actually "Communist"-a fact that had long been as plain as the beard on Fidel's face (TIME, July 27, 1959 et seq.). State Secretary Rusk repeated earlier assurances that the U.S. is not planning "armed intervention in Cuba," and President Kennedy said that "we are not now training and are not now planning to train" an invasion force...
...enough when pitted against death in an unequal struggle." In the New York Daily News, Ted Lewis sounded almost grateful that "a little of the self-assurance of the Kennedy Administration has rubbed off as a result of the Cuban invasion fiasco." Concluded Columnist Russell Reeves in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Cuban events last week demonstrated that life is unlike the television westerns. The good guys do not always...
Most of the 18th century's intellectual love affairs between autocrats of the salon and fust plain autocrats were tetchy. Voltaire, who hated oppression, was oppressively tightfisted with money. Indeed, he made himself a millionaire as a moneylender. As the house guest of Frederick the Great, Voltaire was caught out in a shady currency-smuggling scheme. Frederick, the ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair...
...dishonest acts to blame "a few bad apples" or to complain about persecution by the Government. Said he: "There is really only one thing for top executives to do at such a time as this. That is to forget the alibis and the explanations and have the fortitude-the plain guts-to stand up and say: "This is our failure. We are chagrined and sorry. It will not happen again...
Walking a Tightrope. To some of the witnesses, it was brutally plain that if they wanted to get ahead in the company they had better go along with the clandestine price fixing; others figured that, even in the face of proclaimed company antitrust regulations, they were obliged to break them just to hold their jobs. Said Paul Hartig, former general manager of G.E.'s insulator department: "It was a way of life. It was part of the job." G.E.'s George R. Fink, former sales manager of the medium-voltage department, who was ordered by his superior...