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Moments. But he also had his fine presidential moments-and to many the finest came in October 1962, when he set up a naval blockade that forced Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles that the Soviets had sneaked into Cuba. During that dramatic showdown, which both Kennedy and Khrushchev later said had brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, Kennedy said: "This secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles-in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and the nations of the Western Hemisphere-is a deliberately provocative and unjustified...
...recent Gallup poll reported Republicans would prefer Nixon to Goldwater 52% to 48% if there should be a showdown between...
...raise their grain prices by 8% to 15%, while the Germans would have to slash theirs by 11% to 15%. Last week the distressed Germans pleaded for time to weigh this shocker-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will discuss it during visits this month to De Gaulle and President Kennedy-and showdown talks were postponed until...
...union demands, but there are signs that labor is becoming impatient. The current issue of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s monthly magazine, American Federationist, says that the productivity rise "justifies and even requires higher wage increases than have been occurring in the past several years." Everyone concerned expects a showdown next April, when the United Auto Workers are due to reopen their contract with an industry that is setting new highs in production and profits. Last week in Washington, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther said that labor chiefs should demand increases that at least match the gains in productivity...
After seeing to it that the old frontier does not become too New, McLintock has to settle matters with his wife ("What put that burr under your saddle?"). For the film's showdown, Wayne and Actress O'Hara square off in the middle of town. Stripped to her shift, Maureen is dunked in a trough, turned bottomside up for a spanking, finally has to take a running jump onto the buggy to catch a ride home. But women need that. In Wayne's West, a bit of rough-and-tumble is all it takes to keep...