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Chief accomplishments: Inspired nation and created Peace Corps; defused Cuban missile crisis...
...This is an insensitive statement," Alkins said. "Would you ever see Head Caucasian In Charge, Head Cuban In Charge or Head Greek In Charge...
...bitter day for this town if the world comes to an end," a lady in the grocery shop sighs during the Cuban missile crisis, and that about sums up the locals' world view. But it does not begin to suggest the complexity of the movie Neil Jordan has fashioned from Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher...
...with the National Archives and Kennedy's children, and some valuable lots went unsold. The sale at New York's Guernsey's auction house was sparsely attended, and several of the highest-priced items (which carried only "estimate upon request" designations) failed to sell. These included a Tiffany & Co. Cuban missile crisis calendar paperweight. An asking bid of $300,000 dropped to $100,000 but still failed to draw any interest. The evening's top seller was the Presidential yacht, the Honey Fitz, which fetched $5.4 million from an unidentified telephone bidder...
Just imagine how the history of the past 35 years might have been changed if, during the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy had had to face not only Nikita Khrushchev but also a special prosecutor digging into his sex life. I am concerned that today the U.S. is focused on Clinton's sexual behavior while the world burns. MARCOS MOSHINSKY Mexico City...