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...tractors-for-prisoners negotiations with Castro: "The disgusting, sickening spectacle of four Americans groveling before a cheap, dirty dictator," he called it. Then his evocation of national pride struck home. "How sick do we have to get?" he cried. "How rotten can we be? How low can we sink as Americans before Americans rise up and say, 'Look-our heritage demands more than this; the memory of our men who have died fighting demands more than this.' " His spellbound audience exploded in a roar of applause...
...Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans: "I don't know whether I'm reading names or eye charts." Baker is puzzled by the space race. That Russia was first to send a cosmonaut into space does not unduly dismay Baker...
...house, and they want to show their friends where their money went." For Cinemactor Charlton (BenHur) Heston, Beckett designed a bathroom with a huge sunken Roman tub, dressing rooms, steam room, and a small outdoor gymnasium. Other Beckett bathrooms have magazine racks, telephones, sun lamps over the sink and reading lamps over the toilet. For Jules Stein, chairman of the huge M.C.A. talent agency, Beckett provided his master touch: a special rack for toothbrushes, one for each day of the week, each cleaned by ultraviolet light...
...from Pad 5, the headquarters of the Cape's Abort Rescue Team was a humming hive of activity. Six helicopters were tuning up, ready to carry skilled technicians, doctors and frogmen to rescue the astronaut if the capsule splashed near by. If the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface. Army amphibious craft were ready to retrieve the capsule if it fell in the surf. Waiting out at sea were 65-ft. Navy speedboats; other special craft were on the alert should...
Died. Air Marshal Sir Leonard Horatio Slatter, 66, South African-born British air group commander in the Battle of the Atlantic during critical 1943, whose Wellington and Halifax bombers helped keep Allied sea lanes open by teaming with Royal Navy sub-killers to sink 61 German U-boats in April and May alone; after a long illness; in Uxbridge, England...