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...brought in a goat, very dead, plucked out its eyes and served them to us. Justice Douglas turned to me and said. 'For the sake of America, Bob, make like it's an oyster.' So things have gone up since then." But it was on a sober note that he closed his speech. "My greatest impression of Japan is the great thirst for knowledge of the people. I'm amazed at how interested they are and how much they know about the United States and what is going...
...Tanganyika, sober, sensible Prime Minister Julius Nyerere answered mounting criticism in his T.A.N.U. party by firing the most respected member of his Cabinet-a white man-and then resigning himself. But Nyerere kept his post as T.A.N.U.'s boss. It was a political maneuver that might, in fact, make Nyerere stronger than ever, for he installed as new Prime Minister his own close ally, Rashidi Kawawa, 32, onetime movie star whose long sideburns and curling eyelashes won him fame and top billing in Swahili films, including one titled Country Bumpkin. During his acting career, Kawawa found time...
...stevedore's mind takes the form of jealousy, and jealousy begins when his wife's cousins, fleeing famine in Sicily, enter the U.S. illegally, go to work on the docks, come to live in the stevedore's cold-water flat. One of the cousins is a sober married man (Raymond Pellegrin), but the other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry...
...listening." Sometimes to his advisers, he would demand, "Say that again: What does it mean?" If an adviser strayed from the discussion at hand, the President would cut in, politely but crisply, "That's not the problem at the moment." Annigoni's judgment: "He seemed very calm: sober but not at all pessimistic. A realist, I think-a man who sees things as they are." It was this Kennedy, alert, responsive and concerned, not the grinning campaigner, that Annigoni tried to catch. "He didn't smile very much while I was there," said Annigoni...
...That sober view of the limitations of power and authority is far removed from Kennedy's campaign oratory, which often seemed to suggest that any problem could be solved if only enough vim and vigor were brought to bear on it. Kennedy promised a "New Frontier" to "get America moving again." He soon found that it was tough enough just to keep the old problems from getting out of hand...