Uninvited guests are often pests—especially when they drop by with the announced purpose of telling the host how to run the household. Thus President Kennedy last week made little effort to conceal his private irritation at a visit to Washington from Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno and Mali's towering (6 ft. 8 in.) President Modibo Keita, who had come, as representatives of neutralist nations, to urge the U.S. against taking any stands that might lead to war.
Despite his impatience, Kennedy played his public role of host with scrupulous attention to protocol. At Andrews Air Force Base, a starched, trim five-service...
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