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...spread his message: "He's done a lot-he'll do more." Both the money and the message show in his highly skillful, frequently shown television ads. One depicts a drug pusher behind bars, put there, the ad says, by Rockefeller. Another shows an audience falling asleep during a lecture on sewage treatment, making the point that the subject is not interesting, just important, and Rockefeller is taking care of it. Rockefeller will soon step up his TV campaign with an altered focus. Instead of defending his record, he will turn on Goldberg, comparing the former Justice...
THIS BOOK is set in that unlikely decade, the fifties, when nothing happened and everyone fell asleep. The setting is Indianapolis (of all places), and the historical-social landmarks of the narrative include Eisenhower, Brando, Joe McCarthy and the Red Menace, Dave Brubeck, Time, Moral Re-Armament, the Saturday Evening Post, Chet Baker, frats, the first jet transport, Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile, the "new mature Sinatra," and drive...
...dream. It happened one night when I was asleep. It was late Friday night, and the phone rang. It was John Yovicsin, and he'd been having trouble sleeping. "Ben," he said, "I've been turning tomorrow's game over in my mind, and frankly, I'm worried. I wonder if you could come over." So I went. Yovicsin wanted me to do some prediction analysis, and I finally worked it out that he'd win by 12 points. He thanked me, and then I stayed to make sure he'd fall asleep. Well...
...guns, indicated he knew Rackley was going to be killed. (Lonnie McLucas denies making this telephone call.) Only George Sams offered any evidence directly implicating Bobby Seale: he said Seale ordered him to kill Rackley. (Warren Kimbro, whom Sams testified was present at this conversation, said that he was asleep at the time...
Early one morning last week, a Manhattan patrolman walked up to a taxi parked across the street from Central Park. The driver sat slumped over the wheel, apparently asleep. Trying to arouse him, the policeman discovered that Benjamin Rivera, 44, was dying from a bullet wound close to his heart. The motive for Rivera's slaying was clear: his changemaker was missing...