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Radio Peking and Radio Moscow, usually so ready to side with Castro in any quarrel with the U.S., were oddly silent about his proposal. U.S. diplomats throughout Latin America reported a sharp shift in the attitude toward Adlai Stevenson's impending hemisphere tour. There had been warnings that he might provoke riots if he ventured south of the border in the wake of the Cuban fiasco; the climate for his visit has improved noticeably, and his trip has been confirmed by the U.S. Stevenson's mission: to sound out prospects for joint inter-American action to cope with...
...three stars. In France, Michelin's 1960 edition found ten restaurants worthy of three-star rating; in the four Mobil guides to date, eleven restaurants won the top accolade.* The selections on the whole are remarkably reliable, but devotees of good eating have found much with which to quarrel, particularly in the big cities. Interesting is the fact that two legendary (if perhaps overrated) food towns, such as New Orleans and San Francisco, have only one five-star restaurant apiece, while Chicago, once ignored as a gourmet's town, has three...
...difficult to quarrel with Kennan's hindsight. One can however, criticize Kennan for falling to treat in sufficient detail the role of foreign policy in a democracy. Like Lippmann in The Public Philosophy, Kennan moans about democracies liability to pursue an effective foreign policy, but he gives no realistic suggestion as to how this can be corrected...
...Moanin', Groanin' Blues: Ida Cox (Riverside). One of the classic blues singers displays the supple style, the subtle sense of inflection and phrase, with which she compensated for her lack of the bellows strength of, say, Ma Rainey. Her quarrel with men in these 1920s recordings is unrelenting...
Last week the acrimonious family quarrel came to an end. In Manhattan's Federal District Court, Pan Am was found guilty of violating the antitrust laws by its restraint of Panagra. Recommending that Pan Am divest itself of its 50% holdings in Panagra. Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy said: "It is beyond dispute that Pan American blocked Panagra's independent entry into the U.S.-South American market in order that it may continue to share in substantially all traffic carried by Panagra...