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False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
Occasionally a few brave souls, among them, this writer, try for a local show. Then, if there is something really tweedy on, the little women want to swarm to the Brattle, where the debutantes rub elbows with the intellectuals, and respectability survives...
...seven young men, introduced in Washington, were candidates for the mark of becoming the first human to travel in space. Despite the rub-a-dub-dub of press-agentry, they emerged as ordinary, hardworking, courageous airmen who were willing to chance death in the hope of finding the future that lies in some...
...polka and danced from man to man, staging mock punching battles to the bouncing beat. "You can really beat me up," she cried breathlessly. "Yes, I can feel anger too!" After half an hour, everyone was trying to dance, even the tremulous man who could do little but rub his hands together. The session ended with a slow waltz that lulled the patients with a soothing, cradling motion...
...giving instructions to the 16-year-old sitter, the lady of the house forgot one thing -that she had sprayed some of the bathroom equipment with a white plastic "miracle" paint, the kind that "won't rub off, peel, chip or blister. It stays...