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...with a forefinger, Goldwater lashed out at the tractors-for-prisoners negotiations with Castro: "The disgusting, sickening spectacle of four Americans groveling before a cheap, dirty dictator," he called it. Then his evocation of national pride struck home. "How sick do we have to get?" he cried. "How rotten can we be? How low can we sink as Americans before Americans rise up and say, 'Look-our heritage demands more than this; the memory of our men who have died fighting demands more than this.' " His spellbound audience exploded in a roar of applause...
...Uruguay, anti-Castro rallies were almost as numerous as the more publicized mobs yowling "Cuba Si-Yanki No." In the depressed northern Brazil town of Caruarú, hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four-barreled (4,000 rounds per minute) Czech anti-aircraft guns, Soviet T-34 tanks, and heavy artillery so much in evidence at the Bay of Pigs...
Sullivan told the CRIMSON last night that he had heard about the alleged interference previously, but had no "concrete evidence." He termed the proceedings "real rotten...
Where once-so literature and legend have it-there existed in Manhattan waterfront saloons where savage jack-tars gargled on rotten whisky, and at the same time there were gilded salons where dissipating patricians drank champagne from slippers, most such extremes have disappeared, and the nightclubs of New York today are relentlessly middle class. With some outstanding exceptions, they are also for the birds, including night owls and predatory hawks. And the birds go there...
Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...