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...Chicago's North Side one afternoon earlier this month when four men from the vice squad came calling. A brass plaque on the front door carries the Latin legend "Si non oscillas noli tintinnare"-"If you don't swing, don't ring"-but the cops rang anyway and swung Hefner off to be booked on charges of publishing and selling an obscene magazine...
...President's press conference, earlier in the week. There, as happens with increasing frequency, Kennedy was asked a lot of silly questions-and did not improve much on them in his answers. Inevitably Sarah McClendon, who is becoming television's most monumental bore, got her chance, rang in with a rambling query about an obscure Texas lead smelter that few people a quarter-mile outside of El Paso had ever heard...
...loll in the sun for a while. With Castro standing beside him in Lenin Stadium, Nikita Khrushchev by turns praised Cuba's heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive . . . it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." "Not bad words," said Khrushchev approvingly...
...Spot Check. The expected complications arose. One of Mrs. Felix Cittadino's five children had just gone to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, and she had forgotten the test date. But when the nurse rang her doorbell, she hauled a baby out of the bath, called another youngster home from a neighbor's. She asked: "Do you shoot something in or take something...
...week's end, as Duvalier's two children-Jean-Claude, 12, and Simone, 14-were being driven to Methodist Bird College two blocks from the palace, a car pulled alongside and shots rang out. Neither child was hit, but the driver and two bodyguards were killed. Duvalier called out the militia to patrol all the streets of the capital, and a heavy dread of reprisal set in. By nightfall his men had gunned down six people, including two motorists. The U.S. embassy warned the 1,000 Americans in Haiti to stay clear of Port-au-Prince, stock...