Nation: New York's Keating: FROM A POOLSIDE CHAT, A CUBA CRITIC

IT was a lazy sort of Sunday morning last August, and New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Barnard Keating sat sunning himself at the poolside of a friend's Virginia home. Among the other guests was a young man who works for an electronics firm on the West Coast. The talk turned to Cuba. The young man said that there were rumors among Government contractors that the Soviets were putting a lot of equipment, including electronic gear, into Cuba. Ken Keating, no authority on Cuba, decided to check the rumors.

The results of Keating's investigation, conducted...

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