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...fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist. But in Washington, where the CIA was steadily gaining...
...fact that there is an internal debate within Congress over whether it can and should lead or only react to presidential initiatives shows how uncertain the two houses have become about their own role in the Federal Government. If Congress is unwilling to exert its power over the purse, it has lost its grip on its most fundamental constitutional mandate...
...foreboding to conjecture how Borg will react if his appeal is rejected. Certainly, Borg's principal, and perhaps only, goal left in tennis is to win the U.S. Open, a title that has eluded him in the finals for the past two years. Face with a denial there, he would probably play the qualifying Wimbledon, for Borg, more an asterisk in the record books than a present challenge, is crucial as a tune-up for the September open classic in New York...
There, however, he found plenty to do. "I began to understand about fabrics and the importance of rapport with the public," he says. "It's one thing to design clothes, but it's something else again to hang around the salesrooms watching the public react to them." After seven years in Fashion and Style, he was steered by a Rinascente manager to an interview with Textile Magnate Cerruti, who was hunting for an assistant in the new fashion line he was adding to the family business...
...Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela, today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico helped. But Cuba ended up being the leader. The same scheme was tried on us, but thank God we were able to react in time...