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Trial by Night. As the U.S. answered Castro's shrill accusations, it got some backing from an unexpected source. In Manhattan, Ambassador Teresa Casuso, a longtime friend of Castro's, and Cuba's alternate U.N. delegate, announced bitterly that she had resigned. Said Casuso: "Castro talks in the name of liberating us, but he is a dictator...
...Arab world from Cairo to Damascus to Jidda broke into shrill cries of rage. Hurriedly calling delegates from many Mideast countries for an emergency meeting, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (membership: 2,000,000) gave the New York pickets a week to halt their boycott. "Unless they unload Cleopatra by that time, we will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott...
...Cousteau posted Skindiver Frederic Dumas as a lifeguard, waddled out into the Mediterranean under the 50-Ib. Aqua-Lung, and realized his dream. He was free: "I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space...
...last week the Times had plainly decided that it was past time for Castro to grow up. With a vehemence rare for its editorials, the Times took dead aim on Castro's shrill accusation that the U.S. had sabotaged an ammunition ship that blew up in Havana harbor. Castro's "outrageous charge," which whipped up "the passions and hatreds of his people," said the Times, "was paranoia raised to the level of national policy. Certainly the irresponsible and provocative behavior of the Castro regime in recent days plays directly into the hands of Cuba's enemies...
...lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered face a makeup man's achievement of scarred disfiguration...