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Angry at the policy shortcomings that made him the target of Latin American stones, spit and insults, Vice President Nixon tried to get rid of Rubottom when he returned from his 1958 trip. The Assistant Secretary was saved by the intervention of 'his longtime friend Milton Eisenhower, but now Dwight Eisenhower is alarmed at the setbacks the U.S. has suffered in Latin America. One recent influence on Ike is Peru's conservative Premier Pedro Beltran, a visitor to the White House last month, who argues that the U.S. should help meet some of Latin America's social...
Advantages & Obligations. With his million-dollar trust funds. Joe assured his children of financial independence. "I put them in a position where each one of them could spit in my eye and tell me where to go," he has said, "and there was nothing to prevent them from becoming rich, idle bums if they wanted to." There was the implicit assumption, however, that each Kennedy, freed of the necessity of earning a living, had a duty to make his life worthwhile. Says Rose: "Joe told the children that they had plenty of advantages, but that these advantages carry with them...
...small figures gather at carnivals, dance through the night. Even a venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush his own irrepressible giggles...
While Britain's Princess Margaret and her photographer fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones, happily made plans for their honeymoon, a picture was going the rounds, making it seem that Tony had already been married to himself, about 70 years ago, and had a child, his spit and image. In fact, it was a trick photograph that Armstrong-Jones, posing as all three members of a proper Victorian family, had sent out as a Christmas card in 1954. All gags aside, irrepressible Margaret and Tony announced last week that they will honeymoon in the Caribbean on the royal yacht Britannia, which...
...Impact. But even before Aspen opened, Paepcke had made his name known. "There are two ways you can make an impact on people," he explained. "Either give them a million dollars or spit in their faces. I can't give them a million, and I don't want to spit in anyone's face. But I can interest them, and that is what I'm trying to do in my ads." Paepcke had hit upon the idea of illustrating the "Great Ideas of Western Man" in a series of ads painted by top artists...