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...news conference fortnight ago that the Russian-released RB-47 flyers, Air Force Captains Freeman Olmstead and John McKone, could tell their story publicly as soon as they were debriefed and back from leave. In their third week in the U.S., they were still on leave in Puerto Rico, still kept from the press by the Air Force...
...physically worn out after four years of 70-hour weeks in Washington; he declined with thanks. Chester Bowles passed up the job in favor of his State Department Under-Secretaryship. Adlai Stevenson, who toured Latin America early in 1960, was a possibility, but he went to the U.N. Puerto Rico's Governor Munoz Marin was approached; he, too, turned it down because he wanted to complete his program of economic development on the island...
...from a river five miles away on the Cuban side of the fence. Stored supplies of water have been increased to 11 million gallons, enough to last 20 days. And in a matter of hours U.S. Navy tankers can be cleaned out to carry enough water from nearby Puerto Rico or Haiti to supply the base indefinitely. The Navy does not expect a direct armed assault. But if Castro attacks, the U.S. is reluctantly prepared for that...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell, 52, Negro clergyman and Democratic Congressman from Harlem, recently divorced from Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Ivette Diago, 29, Powell's Puerto Rican secretary; he for the third time, she for the second, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Freshmen selected were: Stephen B. Adams of Wigglesworth and New Canaan, Conn.; Christopher T. Barrows of Straus and Milwaukee, Wisc.; Paul Horvitz of Huribut and Santurce, Puerto Rico; and Edward P. Legg of Wigglesworth and Austin, Texas...