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...Confusing? Of course. But no more confusing than the rest of the continuing Cuba controversy. In what may rank as the silliest statement made so far about that controversy, Texas' Democratic Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee, called on the Administration, Senators and Congressmen to stop answering questions about Cuba. "There has been talk of an intelligence gap," said Mahon. "There is an intelligence gap. The gap is in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the U.S. Government." It was "outrageous," he said. "Critics have made...
...hearing, Lawrence F. O'Donnell, the accused officers' lawyer, termed Washington's charges "cheap, counterfeit propaganda" designed to "enhance his position as a performer." Barshak yesterday called O'Donnell's statement "the silliest thing I've ever heard. The most publicized aspect of the case was the dispute between the Police Commissioner and myself, and that had nothing to do with Jackie...
...ought to be banned forever from the concert stage. In Rossini's Non Piu mesta (from La Cenerentola)--and Miss Berganza has something of a reputation as a Rossini specialist--one again heard impeccable vocalism which managed to be utterly unexciting. Though Non Piu mesta is one of the silliest both Giulietta Simionato and Victoria de los Angeles are still able to transform what is essentially a vocalise into something quite thrilling, for they seem to believe, at least for the duration of the aria, that it is really a terrific piece of music, and that they are singing...
...felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...
...silliest products of the cold war has been the extensive travel restrictions imposed on U.S. and Russian tourists visiting each other's countries. The Soviet Union put vast portions of its territory off limits to aliens before World War II; tourists who did visit the U.S.S.R. were assigned Intourist guides to keep them from straying. In 1955 the State Department finally retaliated by banning Soviet visitors from some 27% of the U.S. on a tit-for-tat basis (e.g., Pittsburgh was closed because the Russians forbade U.S. tourists to visit the Soviet steel center of Magnitogorsk...