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...Much Left? The meat shortage is a good example of Castro's reckless ways and the later reckoning. Seizing the great cattle ranches of Camaguey province, the "Texas of Cuba," Castro's men slaughtered breeding cattle by the thousands to show Cubans what a good life the revolution had brought. Before long, the herds were decimated. Fortnight ago, Castro ordered a count to see how many cattle were left, and last week called a national conference to ponder "production deficiencies...
...Jack Kennedy's New Frontier grows costlier, the traditional Republican argument that Democrats are reckless spenders is already beginning to be heard again. No one is more sensitive to the charge than the President himself, who slipped a surprising pledge into his recent speech on the Berlin crisis: he will submit a balanced budget for the fiscal year beginning next July. Kennedy smudged this pleasant pecuniary painting somewhat by conceding that it might take a tax increase to balance the books...
Front Seat. When Macmillan elevated Home from Commonwealth Relations to the Foreign Office last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality...
...doubtless was not amused by the "seer" who responded: "I have a vision of a square pond, but I can see your thought, and you expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion, the poet deputed a vampire to plague one of his enemies. The reckless, insane logic of the spirit world sometimes pursued Yeats far beyond the seance rooms. Years after his long, frustrated courtship of the hauntingly lovely firebird of the Irish Troubles, Maud Gonne, had ended with her marriage to another man, the fortyish Yeats showed up in her home on the coast...
...time Gagarin's flight was announced, the Soviet public was primed. Tension was increased enormously by the apparently reckless daring of passing the word while the Vostok was still in orbit...