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...teach an old dog new tricks, but it takes too long," Barry Goldwater told the Harvard Young Republicans yesterday afternoon at Sanders Theater. "Our generation has gotten the country into trouble, and we want...
...action, and despite tough police handling of the crowd at the end of the Thursday riot, rumors continually swept the College yesterday, hinting at an even greater demonstration. One story said a group of students had returned from Maryland with $250 worth of fireworks. By late afternoon word had gotten around that perhaps the fireworks were actually explosives, including 21 charges...
...Goldwater left Rindge Tech. Auditorium, a student told him "how much the audience had gotten out of" his speech. "That's why these speaking engagements give me so much satisfaction," said the Junior Senator from Arizona...
...Cuban invasion, so baffling in every way, set some kind of journalistic record for coverage and noncoverage. Rarely have supposedly secret preparations gotten so much advance public notice. Then when the pathetically unprepared force stormed ashore, there were no correspondents along; much of the news of the fighting had to be put together from such faraway places as Miami and Guatemala. TIME's Havana correspondent, like the other U.S. newsmen in the Cuban capital, could file nothing: some reporters were rounded up by Castro's security agents; TIME's man found temporary haven in an embassy...
...lunch is a rite and an art, and in such gin-filled aquariums as the Brown Derby and Romanoff's, the tab frequently exceeds what a strong man could earn in a month delivering milk or teaching high school algebra. But last week it seemed that matters had gotten out of hand. Spyros Skouras, the sovereign lord of 20th Century-Fox, had summoned Writer-Producer-Director Leslie Stevens to a staff lunch. Stevens, whose Daystar Corp. forms a powerful fealty under the Skouras fief, sent a proxy, and Skouras, growing wroth at the breach of fealty, canceled...