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...Nikita Khrushchev's message threatening to give Castro "all necessary assistance in beating back the armed attack." Dissatisfied with the answer drafted by the State Department, Kennedy dictated a reply himself. What was going on in Cuba, he told Khrushchev, was a "struggle for freedom" against an "alien-dominated regime." The U.S. "intends no military intervention in Cuba," but "in the event of any military intervention by outside force," the U.S. is ready to "protect this hemisphere against external aggression...
...Alien Settings. From Piltdown man to Perelman, the history of humor is overwhelmingly male, and only a few representative female names present themselves for comparison with Jean Kerr. The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation. At the other, soft-boiled end of the world was the late Betty (The Egg and 1 Mac-Donald, an authentic primitive. Jean Kerr will probably never be quite up to Parker (for one thing, she is not cruel nor, perhaps, as deep), and she will...
...prose pieces or plays, the best element in Jean Kerr's humor is that it often bridges traditionally alien settings, brings the muddy-carpeted world of school lunches and commuter trains into incon gruous collision with the slick panoplies of Manhattan. It works in both direc tions. Writing about a third-grade play at a Larchmont school, she notes certain uneven spots that "could have been cleaned up if they had taken the show to New Rochelle for a couple of weeks." Conversely, one of the biggest laughs in Mary, Mary comes when the movie actor prepares to take...
...depression. With jobs scarce, he went to work in the advertising department of the Dentsu news agency. "It was utterly unheard of for an Imperial University man to go into advertising," Yoshida recalls, "but there wasn't much choice in those days." Most Japanese regarded advertising as an alien form of moneygrubbing that was contrary to the more traditional and subtle Japanese way of doing things. Advertising implied competition, and the monopoly-minded Japanese were more accustomed to making private arrangements with competitors. With most of Japan's production in the hands of a few big business combines...
Arrested in New York City last October was a Russian U.N. employee named Igor Melekh. Together with one Willie Hirsch, a German-born alien, Melekh was charged with conspiring to obtain, for transmittal to Russia, information about U.S. military installations in and near Chicago. If convicted, Melekh and Hirsch faced sentences of up to 25 years in prison...