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Shortage of Dancing Girls. But once the two mayors were buckled in their C121 (Constellation) seats for the flight to Tyndall, the story of their disillusionment-as recorded in sworn statements by Air Force and civilian witnesses and bolstered by Air Force movies-read differently. First off, Mayor Fitzpatrick asked if there were a bar on the plane. Told that Air Force planes are not so equipped, the mayor said: "Well, boy, I've got my own bar." Soon. Healy and Fitzpatrick, after pouring drinks for some other passengers, finished off one fifth, then another ("Here...
...Officers Sworn...
...civilization at the mercy of a nameless army of self-annihilators, men who kill with an almost sexual relish because they are secretly in love with death? In The War Lover (an October Book-of-the-Month Club choice), Novelist John Hersey (The Wall, A Single Pebble) has apparently sworn by the beard of Freud to bed Mars on the analyst's couch...
...televised joint session of Parliament, scholarly, white-haired Dr. Heinrich Lübke, 64, onetime West German Agriculture Minister and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's hand-picked choice (TIME, June 29 et seq.) was sworn in as Heuss's successor. There was no pomp or strut about the transfer ceremony; 106 of Parliament's 564 vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute...
...from the country. They just threatened to cut off his food. At the suggestion of a Havana radio commentator, the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers, whose membership includes cooks, waiters, barkeeps and hotel staffs, voted to deny Dubois their services "because of his attitude as spy, divisive agent and sworn enemy of the Cuban revolution." Snapped Dubois: "If they want war, I'll give them...