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...telephone the President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...
...buildings, and share the same queues at post offices and bus stops. In Mozambique's busy Lourenço Marques, no one bothers to lock the door of his house or take the keys out of his parked car, and it is safe for whites to walk the darkest alleys at midnight; everywhere, the natives are quiet and polite...
...university by spending time away." McGeorge Bundy, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, adds that not more than 10% of the faculty are ever absent for long. Bundy asks: "How are we going to strengthen our knowledge of far-off areas unless we have men wandering through darkest Africa? This outside activity enriches and invigorates the place. Without it Harvard would be a much duller place." At week's end Boston papers reported that Bundy himself, a Republican-for-Kennedy, was in line for a Washington job as Under Secretary of State...
...learn how to paint. Keller is no sentimentalist, but his narration is cluttered with most of the furniture of the sentimental novel-the childhood love who dies of consumption, the mother who starves herself to buy her son's art supplies, and the chance meeting, when all seems darkest, with the count's fair young daughter. Now and then the prose gavottes giddily from its stolid march formation ("Before his sun of life had reached its noonday zenith, he returned to the inscrutable Infinite . . ."), and the author is too fond of teasingly retrieving his hero from the brink...
M.I.T. although boasting the son of an olympic medalist in fencing, has nothing special to offer and can only be considered as the darkest of dark horses for the racing's match...