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Calling itself "The Free Voice of America," Castro's radio spends 22 hours a day broadcasting its Marxist spiel in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French from six powerful transmitters, five of them 100,000 watts, in the Cuban town of Bauta, 23 miles west of Havana. Built with Swiss and Czechosloyakian equipment at an estimated cost of $35 million, the station started operating in April 1961, and ever since has blasted the hemisphere with half-truths and diatribes...
Even the warmest admirers of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara agree that he is something less than the soul of diplomacy. His voice rasps with irritation at slower-witted subordinates; he has cut off soldiers and solons in mid-spiel. But while McNamara has effectively been shaking things up at the Pentagon, another man has effectively been soothing them down. He is Roswell L. Gilpatric, 55, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and by general agreement the most important No. 2 man in any department or agency of the New Frontier...
Older & Wiser. These modest attractions give klaxon-larynxed Eagle no opportunity to launch into the splendor of his oldtime spiel: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I invite your undivided attention to the most amazing attraction ever presented for the edification of the citizens of your fair city (come closer, please, so that I may describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles...
...nation have recognized the Potomac Palisades as a great scenic resource, and over the years considerable effort has been expended to preserve its beauty." Others have been more outspoken, and quiet McLean has been alive with protest meetings and petitions. Griped Radio Commentator Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly spiel is paid for by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ("Thirteen and a half million Americans bring you Edward P. Morgan"): "I don't want my own property to be menaced by 1,200 families moving in next to me." The Washington Post sounded as if it were going to cross the river...
...most eloquent spiel, perhaps, came from Father Richard Madden, a Discalced (sandal-wearing) Carmelite whose life of Christ, written for teenagers, once had the working title of The Divine Rumble. "I've got a sneaky feeling that teen-agers are coming up with a lot of reasons why they don't want to be priests or nuns," he told 6,000 students at the convention. "A magazine took a survey. One kid said, 'I don't like Latin.' So he'll never be a doctor; who likes blood? He'll never...