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During this year's Cuba crisis, the White House invoked news-control measures that approached wartime severity. At the departments of Defense and State, no one was allowed to speak to newsmen without a monitor present or unless the gist of the interview was later reported to a public information officer. Reporters were barred from accompanying the quarantine fleet to the Caribbean. The news, filtered through the White House, often came late. By the time Kennedy announced two inspections of Cuba-bound Soviet ships, there had been...
...substantial victory and thus managed to internationalize the commissions. In the atmosphere engendered by the liberals, the council a fortnight ago approved a "Message to Humanity" that one conservative priest called "too Protestant" in that it invited "all our brothers who believe in Christ" to affirm it. The gist: "All men are brothers, irrespective of the race or nation to which they belong...
...week long, Ottawa crowds poured into the National Gallery of Canada, and the gist of what they demanded was: take me to your fakes. The show of paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. had proved unpredictably popular, but for all the wrong reasons. Between 60 and 70 of the 187 paintings in the exhibition were under critical indictment as phony-a scandal so big as to strike at the confidence that the art market is founded...
...Bent. The cold fiscal facts of club life are laid out in a financial study of 50 city clubs published this month by the New York accounting firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co. Its gist: city-club expenses are steadily increasing while income is decreasing. In 1961-62 the total revenues of the 50 clubs were $52.1 million-down $170,000 from the preceding year-while operating costs were up $259,000 over a year ago. Compared with 1952-53, city-club revenues are 26% higher, but operating costs have risen...
...hardly less grand than the two chiefs of state, although he is only a private citizen-last week took an important stand. As so often before when Europe grappled with its future, there came from Jean Monnet, 73, godfather of the Common Market, some sharp, ringing directions. Gist of the message from "Mr. Europe": expand and unite...