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...telephone company feels that this kind of kissing has to stop. It tends to jam up circuits when one beeper sets up a line by dialing his own number and passing the word around. Beepers who use the numbers of local radio stations or weather bureaus make service useless for large segments of the public...
...travel ban is useless as a way of protecting American citizens and preventing dollars from reaching Castro; it is worse than useless as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Forbidding all but a few people to go to Cuba invites defiance, especially defiance by people who, like these students, are pro-Castro to begin with and are likely to return with glowing reports of happy peasants and contented workers. In the process, the U.S. government is made to look as if it is trying to suppress "the real truth" about Cuba...
...Lionel Abel, who has written a lucid critique of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers in the current issue, is obviously a brilliant reviewer. Norman Mailer who reviews Mary McCarthy's The Group on the front page of the same issue is, on the other hand, a useless and horrid contributor...
...During inspections before Glenn's flight, it was discovered that electrical connectors had been improperly soldered in the escape towers of both Glenn's capsule and his backup capsule, leaving the escape devices useless...
...Ambassador Charles R. Burrows did his best to talk the brass out of it. Last week the Pentagon even rushed in Major General Theodore F. Bogart, of the U.S. Army Forces Southern Command, for secret talks to be sure everyone got the message. But all threats and pleas were useless. Early one morning last week, four air force fighters swooped low over the tile-roofed capital of Tegucigalpa, as troops cut off access to the presidential palace. Villeda Morales' loyal civil guardsmen put up a vain resistance, and gunfire rattled through the cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made...