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Meanwhile, Lewis' death would go down as the 977th unsolved Chicago rub-out since...
There comes the real rub. It was in that context that President Kennedy at his press conference last week referred to the Russians in Cuba as, in a sense, "police units." Yet present U.S. policy toward Cuba is, in the words of one top Administration official, "not containment; it's getting rid of Castro." The U.S. intends to keep on applying all the economic and political pressures it can. It also counts on increasing disaffection among the Cubans themselves, based on their lack of food and their lack of liberty...
There comes the rub. Britain has no long-range missile force of its own, canceled one land-based missile project-the 2,000-mile Blue Streak-in favor of a U.S. offer to develop Skybolt and charge Britain only the production costs of the missiles it orders. Since Britain was thereby persuaded to place all its missile hopes in Skybolt, it came as a considerable shock when the U.S. last week threatened to scrub the entire project...
...ready for rehearsals by last October, and wherever he could he sat the youngsters next to the veterans, on the theory that the enthusiasm of one would rub off on the experience of the other. But there is more than seating arrangement to account for the transformation of an assorted group of musicians into a symphony orchestra. Stokowski tunes differently from other conductors: instead of asking the oboe for an A by which the whole orchestra tunes, he asks for an A for woodwinds, a B-flat for the brasses, an A again for the strings. The three sections tune...
Besides ending the football season and boosing the Cambridge liquor merchants into a sort of financial nirvana, Yale Weekend makes it difficult not to rub shoulders with an acquaintance or two from the other place. The other place, actually, creeps into a great many conversations. Sometimes one must not only talk about it, but think about it as well. And the thought of Yale, no matter how distasteful, can bring an abrupt but not unuseful reminder that there are other universities than Harvard, and other ways than Harvard's to prepare undergraduates for the fellowship of educated...