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...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...
...religion, or the Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling...
Such probes into reality were the sharper points of a four-page questionnaire that was mailed out from Washington last week to 20,000 U.S. youngsters who had signaled an interest in John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps. Some 400 students from 300 colleges and universities couldn't wait. They met last week in Washington's American University for a Peace Corps conference called by the National Student Association and heard Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver warn: "This will not be a moonlight cruise on the Amazon or a pleasure vacation in Kashmir.'' Added Wisconsin...
...kind of tense expectancy as the Kennedy Administration made its promised hard-boiled study of U.S. military might. The promise in the air, bolstered by the President's own words, indicated a movement toward a radical strengthening of the Navy's Polaris submarine force and a sharper concentration on conventional warfare needs. This week the promise flowered when the President sent his New Look to Congress. Recommendations...
...matters turned out, it was not all that simple. Under sharper questioning, he testified that the family's distillery interests had been sold to the Schenley Corp., in which he and a brother held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought...