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...conditions that by last week, when the Cuban airlift completed its first six months, 25,000 Cubans had left the country and almost 1,000,000 more-fully one-seventh of the Cuban population-were on the waiting list. Invasion talk was also a good way to justify the sleek, new, expensive arms and other military hardware pouring into Cuba from the Soviet Union at a time when everything else was in such short supply...
...guarded by Thai soldiers at Takhli, Korat, Udorn and Ubon, eight squadrons of U.S. Air Force F-105s and F-4Cs fly more than 125 missions daily - 80% of all the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. Peasants tending their rice fields rarely look up any more as sleek RF-101 reconnaissance planes of the Thirteenth Air Force's 632nd Combat Support Group scream off and within minutes are over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. From Korat, the jet afterburners of F-105s and F-4Cs of the 6234th Tactical Fighter Wing light up the night...
...Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving "the costliest meal in Paris today." As for the London Hilton, it is "the closest version of a 'hotel machine' that America could export. It functions, it looks (and it is) sleek and modern; it provides food, drink, comfort, and even luxury. The only two vital ingredients it lacks are warmth and humanity...
...side away from the river, is based on deception. Going up Mass. Ave. all you can see on your left is a gigantic building in Chicago Roman, looking like something left over from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. But this is a front. Behind the building are acres of sleek, naked towers in Brasilia modern, cleverly obscured from the street, and dirty movies...
...week or so ago I went among the sleek, naked towers to see some Kenneth Anger films. Anger is best known for Fireworks, a gay dream film featuring him projecting a roman candle from his fly and lighting it. Scorpio Rising (1963), a later work, is a slightly premature pop culture lick featuring motorcycles, an overripe rock soundtrack, and genitals. The genitals are only there for a couple of frames. But the audience at M.I.T. was very fond of them. Especially a group of aging motorcyclists sitting next...