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Lest any comrade be misled by his cordial message congratulating new U.S. President Kennedy on his inauguration, Khrushchev added a plain statement: "The No. 1 enemy of the peoples of the world," said Nikita...
Better Than Even Money. At last count, Frondizi had weathered no fewer than 28 identifiable crises in his relatively short term of office. Yet it is plain that each upheaval is a little less threatening than the one before. It is also clear that none of Frondizi's opponents feel strongly enough to apply the final measure of pressure needed to turn out Argentina's lonely and unpopular President. Feelings have become more and more neutral, and one of Buenos Aires' leading papers now aptly and blandly describes Frondizi as "the President we managed...
Neutralists and the nervous complained that by supplying the T-6s, the U.S. had risked "provoking" the Communists into expanding the war. Current U.S. policy is still to seek a negotiated solution. But while the international dickering goes on, the U.S. made plain its intention to help the Laotian government in its fight against the Communists. Demanded one harrassed U.S. official in Vientiane...
Cause for Apprehension. Deploring the boundless energy of Kennedy's task forces ("They have been burning the midnight oil thinking up things for the Kennedy Administration to do"), the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggested darkly: "It remains to be seen whether the gateway to the New Frontier will lead to a Paradise for Planners or the rocky road of hard work and self-sacrifice." In Chicago, the Tribune scanned the economic survey prepared for Kennedy by Paul Samuelson, Walter Heller and other economists, and concluded that the New Frontier might become a retreat to the wartime "regimented economy" of Franklin...
...third capacity, private citizen Eliot emphasized that the idea of a commercial structure on a site where continental troops mustered before Bunker Hill was "just plain outrage." In 1769, he noted, when the Proprietors of Cambridge set aside the common land for the public, they stipulated that it should revert to original owners if ever used for other than civic purposes...