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Anyone previously skeptical of the need to revise and standardize United States policy in Latin America will be convinced by Samuel Shapiro's concise study, Invisible Latin America...
Seldom has a scholar assembled such an impressive array of quotations in which American dignitaries say the "wrong things"--or used the quotations so effectively. Shapiro quotes a statement by Senators Ellender of Louisiana and Eastland of Mississippi that "Latin America needs . . . more dictators like Trujillo." Similarly, during the 1962 Cuban crisis a Congressman declared that "for a good many years down in Latin America, on forty different occasions, American armed forces . . . moved into countries south of the border. . . . But lately we have adopted this mamby-pamby policy of attempting to turn to Latin American countries, to ask their permission...
...Shapiro is unimpressed by the United States' record from James Monroe to John F. Kennedy, and he appeals for a new, enlightened policy that discards any remnants of the Monroe Doctrine, the Big Stick, and dollar diplomancy...
Also elected were: Martin Rosenman, of Quincy House and Brooklyn, N.Y., mathematics; Jay P. Sage, of Lowell House and Ridgewood, N.J., physics; James A. Shapiro, of Leverett House and Chicago, III., English; Martin C. Spechier, of Adams House and Lima, Ohio, social studies; Stepher F. Tobias, of Dunster House and New York, N.Y., Far Eastern languages; David A. Waller, of Kirkland House and Louisville, Ky., English; Peter K. Weston, of Lowell House and Santa Barbara, Calif., history; and Lawrence J. White, of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif., economics...
...rich. Small wonder, then, that Hollywood royalty steals reverently these nights to the cave of an Amazonian blonde who has, with a glare of her Nefertiti eyes, stretched Steve Allen and Linda Christian board-rigid across chairs in cataleptic trances. "Nobody can follow her," says Screenwriter Stanley (Pillow Talk) Shapiro reverently. "Not even Frank Sinatra...