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...nearly 5 o'clock. Technician Oskar Anthamatten worked on the balky engine of a bulldozer. In the canteen a dozen men drank beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...
...this may explain why Castro ordered citizens to turn in their weapons by Sept. 1 and began purging all but the staunchest Castroites from his government. "When it is possible to have a technician who is a revolutionary, so much the better," said Castro over the radio. "But when there is no revolutionary technician to take the post, let it be filled by a revolutionary cadre member, even though he is not a technician. It is necessary to have a revolutionary attitude toward problems...
Sorensen, who was Kennedy's top staff technician both in the Senate and the White House, notes that his account is "limited by the fact that I knew nothing whatever of the operation until after it was over," although subsequently Kennedy poured his heart out to him. Schlesinger, who had left Harvard to become a presidential adviser, says that he considered the whole Bay of Pigs plan to be a "terrible idea" while it was under discussion, and had so told the President in memos and in private conversation...
...Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny Driftwood, a nice but undesirable young man," and persuades him to ditch his gal Sloppy-Belle and get into the Job Corps. Next scene: having been thoroughly rehabilitated, Danny Driftwood wins Bouncy-Belle, a nubile if ungrammatical Sekkatery...
Arthur C. Reid, 19, a laboratory technician at the Cambridge Electron accelerator, died at Massachusetts General Hospital Tuesday night of burns and injuries suffered in the July 5 CEA explosion...