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Young & Searching. Kennedy's Administration is still young, still searching for the right formulas. Despite the failure of the Cuban invasion and the foolish uncertainty over the tractor deal, there will be other "next times'' for John Kennedy to redeem his reputation as a political leader of potential greatness. Yet if the pattern persists, there will be a clear and present danger that President Kennedy, surrounded as he is by a din of conflicting advisory voices, may lose the confidence necessary to guide the nation through such coming struggles as Berlin...
While the tractors-for-prisoners negotiators cooled their heels in their Havana Riviera suites (see THE NATION), the bearded dictator was having a high old time with the U.S. reporters who flew down to cover the proceedings. The tractor experts saw Castro only for 5½ hours. The press got a lot more...
Ustinov's translation of play to screenplay retains the Broadway comedy's assets (the idea is cute) and liabilities (the idea is cute). Asked to laugh once again at the same back-slapping Americans and tractor-worshipping Russians who have populated every cold war farce, the viewer may well decide that what the world needs even more than international accord is some new international jokes. But the Ninotchka-era jokes are presented with considerable spirit, and Actors Gavin and Dee, the missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers...
...U.P.I. editors, Goldwater made a slashing, campaign-style attack on President Kennedy's "response to blackmail demands" in the Cuban tractor deal. Goldwater denounced U.S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow (who has defended the deal) as a "Government-paid huckster," declared that "if official policy is so shaky that the USIA has to be utilized to sell it to our own people, then that policy should be abandoned in favor of one that the American people can support." Labeling John Kennedy's cold war policy as "almost calculated confusion," Goldwater called for the President to lay down...
...Paar show that Goldwater was at his most forthright. He opposed the tractor deal on both political and practical grounds. Said he: "Allowing a group of citizens, no matter how well-intentioned they may be, to conduct our foreign affairs once could lead to a repetition of it at any time a foreign Communist leader saw fit to take prisoners and then offered to release them, say for 500 electric shavers or a solid-gold Cadillac or 200 tractors...