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Without visas, unable to afford a plane ticket, they arrive in Florida at the rate of 50 to 100 a week in stolen launches, by sailboat, fishermen's dory or makeshift raft, drifting up the Gulf Stream, from Cuba's northern coast 90 miles to the Florida keys. One group of five young men spent 2½ days at sea in an 8-ft. rowboat, at one point hailed a passing freighter for food and water. Their request was refused; it was a Russian ship...
...East Berliner asked why he was being stopped and was told: "Don't play dumb." Communist vigilante squads styling themselves "Committees to Block the Slave Trade" turned commuters over to the police. Inevitably, many of the Berlin commuters joined the refugees, and now make up 20% of the stream...
Although his wife complained during the career-shattering crisis of 1956 that the Suez Canal seemed to cascade through their Downing Street drawing room, Sir Anthony Eden, 64, renewed by his recent peerage (TIME, July 14), was no longer afraid to go near the water. Honoring the bard-blessed stream that runs through his longtime Warwickshire constituency, the ex-Prime Minister selected "Earl of Avon" as his new title. To his son Nicholas, 30, will go a courtesy designation. Viscount of Royal Leamington Spa, to commemorate a last resort that has inspired more dowagers than iambs...
...Stream of Sensuousness. For years, critics skimmed the dazzling prose surface of Hemingway and harped on his tough-guy realism. In one of those flat-out statements that sometimes herald a major critical about-face, at least one U.S. critic, North Carolina State's E. M. Halliday, recently called Hemingway essentially a philosophical writer. His was, of course, never a formal but a sort of visceral philosophy. But though he was leary of metaphysical systems, Hemingway was really on a metaphysical quest. Without the customary marks of the intellectual, in fact often called anti-intellectual, he was nevertheless...
...philosophic attitudes of his works if the entire climate of intellectual history had not prepared an audience for him. The 20th century was primed for a philosophy of concrete things rather than abstract ideas, was ready for a psychology of sensations-for the brute fact, the tactile thrill, the stream of sensuousness that inundate the pages of Hemingway...