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...quiet of a rambling house in Hyannisport, Mass, one evening last week, two young women lounged before a TV set watching history in process in Los Angeles. Periodically, the hostess daubed away at a painting, and once the two got into a thoughtful discussion about the exact shade of Dufy blue. It was, in all, a pleasant evening for Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and TIME Correspondent Anne Chamberlin...
...Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whom Lumumba admires. Whether Lumumba could forge any coherent policy out of his cumbersome new executive structure seemed open to question, for he had promised so many things to so many parties that last week his first Cabinet totaled 36 men, representing every political shade from flirting Communist to tribal conservative...
...degree. No one on Finisterre would think of lounging about during off-hours; each man dons eyeshade and earplugs and hits the sack for some serious sleep. In action, the crew spots trouble so swiftly that Mitchell seldom gives an order. As easily as lowering or raising a window shade, the men can change a sail in 15 seconds or less. Says a blue-water veteran who once shipped aboard Finisterre: "I felt like the village idiot watching those guys work...
...those towns and hills and groves last week the splendor of a new summer seemed, as always, to give a new lilt to life. The hills and fields triumphed with fresh green grass. In the old towns, the giant oaks and elms threw rich new shade across the white colonial mansions and the square, peaked-roofed clapboard houses. In fresh-minted subdivisions, sycamore striplings strained at their stakes to promise token cover for the bare houses of glass, steel, stone and shingle that have sprouted (19 million since 1940) as from a bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed...
...question is, does he pack enough poetic dynamite to please the shade of a Nobel? Giving him the highest possible marks and allowing for the poet's most destructive enemy-translation-the answer is still no. Quasimodo does not often descend to the banalities of To the New Moon, first published in a Communist paper in celebration of Russia's Sputnik. Mostly he pays in recognizable poet's coin. His world is shrouded in melancholy, in mournful contemplation of man's fate. "Give me sorrow daily bread," and, doubtfully hoping, "perhaps the heart is left...