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...dissolved and reorganized with a screened membership, and the organization adopted a policy of criticizing the U.S.S.R. as well as the U.S. When Russia's Khrushchev-insisted on a troika to supervise a test ban last year, SANE took ads to say: "We believe that such a three-man council, operating with a veto, cancels out the very purpose of control." When Khrushchev later boasted about firing a 50-megaton bomb, SANE accused him of "an act of nuclear madness" that "contemptuously defied all decency and morality." SANE coordinated the picketing of the Soviet Union's U.N. headquarters...
...fight with the Communists, or converted into a Caribbean Tito. Maverick expeditions to Castroland from Florida are headed off; the exile counter-plotters have dispersed-the CIA seeks them out occasionally to see what they are up to, but offers no real help. A few two-and three-man CIA expeditions land in Cuba to bury containers of weapons for possible future use. Small-scale guerrilla bands fight and die in Cuba without U.S. help...
Turning Point. Next day the unique three-man play-off for the richest prize in golf (winner's share: $20,000) brought 15,000 unruly fans flocking to the dogwood-dotted course. They lined the fair ways, clustered 50-deep around the greens, wrestled with Pinkerton agents, trampled down greens and tees...
...better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...
Timothy Tobin, a memer of the three-man Licensing Board, said Thursday, night, "We plan to tell the establishments we license to stop advertising the twist as their main attraction...