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Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen W. Dulles leaped to Gates's side to explain that there is nothing mysterious about an attempt to assess Soviet "intentions" to build missiles. He told a Manhattan audience that the U.S. generally stresses capabilities to produce in the early stages of Soviet weapons development and "then, as more hard facts are available, we estimate their probable programing, sometimes referred to as 'intentions.' " Dulles did not attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though...
Candidate John Kennedy emerged from the tidy city hall in Nashua, N.H. and walked down Main Street, smiling, shaking hands, waving as he went. A crowd of 100 chattering well-wishers flowed after him, and at his side. Royal Dion, a dry cleaner and local politico, kept up a round of introductions. The weather was snowy and cold; the crowd was in fine humor and distinctly pro-Kennedy. Passing Sardy's restaurant, Senator Kennedy paused to wave at the patrons through the steamy window, went on to accept the best wishes of a contingent of grocers at the California...
...commanders made a few tough noises, then lapsed into undisguised sympathy with the insurgents. And when news of the army's attitude reached Paris, the effect on De Gaulle's civilian subordinates was shattering. Some members of the government all but openly took the army's side; even more panicked...
Taking the speaker's podium at a meeting of the U.S.S.R.'s Composers Union, famed Soviet Composer Dmitry Kabalevsky (TIME, Nov. 23) advised his musical comrades to redirect their suites to the sunny side of the street. "Our songs suffer from a tone of despondent melancholy," declared he. "Under the guise of lyrics appear the cries of the weak man complaining of his own private life." After the meeting, one of Kabalevsky's colleagues, Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian, whose music is anything but self-piteous, winged to the U.S., looked like any tired businessman when...
...letter to the CRIMSON, Hoffmann noted that his withdrawal from the Forum as representative of the French view came after learning that he would not have equal time to present his side but would "merely comment" on Chanderli's remarks. "I thought it rather strange to ask a Frenchman to help in putting the spotlight on the point of view of the F.L.N. Hence my refusal to join in the occasion...