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Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater seemed to be everywhere at once last week. He showed up on Jack Paar's late-night talkathon to denounce the tractor trade with Fidel Castro. He gave the commencement address at New York's Long Island University, at the same time picking up his fourth honorary doctorate in ten days (the others were from Arizona State University, Hamilton College, Brigham Young University). He debated on television with New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was a great hit at a glittery Washington debut party for the daughter...
...Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse or fit a pipe, and he did all those things as a youth on his family's Louisiana sugar plantation, where his Spanish-descended father was an engineer in the mill. But the last thing he wanted to do was to spend the rest of his life on a plantation. He went to Chicago, where he happened to pay a visit to the Art Institute and to what is now the Museum of Natural History. There he was so beguiled by a collection of Egyptian...
...gains and losses of the Cuban tractor deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism...
...stop to help a dying man." Argentine President Arturo Frondizi told a press conference: "I don't believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers of help from readers; some 2,000 students paraded through the city to raise funds...
Whatever happens, Washington cannot work merely for a "safe climate for American investment;" nor can it, in the present situation, send in the Marines, as some imprudent Senators have suggested. The Dominican crisis, coming on the heels of the President's energetic response to Castro's tractor after, must not be allowed to damage what is left of U.S. prestige in Latin America; and reliance on the Organization of American States is not only good politics, but will strengthen a force for order and stability in the Caribbean...