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...word article, by New Yorker Staff Writer Suzannah Lessard, does not attempt to document any amatory adventures. But it asserts that the gossip is true and suggests that Kennedy's philandering is a "latent issue" that will surface as the electorate struggles to get the Senator's character in sharper focus, and offers her own instant analysis: his behavior represents "a severe case of arrested development, a kind of narcissistic intemperance...
...practice their accents, droppin' g's like sure-'nuff Texans. When they do something besides thinking, like parading around the swimming pool, they sound as if the only Texans they know are those who shop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Bel Geddes does not even attempt an accent, but she is so good at everything else that no one notices. Lucky Larry Hagman, who grew up in Texas, sounds just right...
Still, as a good soldier, Helms was dragged into operations against his better judgment. A case in point was the attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. As the author describes the episode, John and Bobby Kennedy told the CIA to get rid of Castro. That is why Helms was so disgusted during the later Senate investigation of the CIA when Frank Church demanded written proof of an order to kill the Cuban leader. Helms felt like responding (but didn't): "Senator, how can you be so goddamned dumb? You don't put an order like that in writing...
Nixon dumped Helms when he failed to provide sufficient cover-up for Watergate. In departing, Helms once again took the rap for what his superiors had ordered. He was charged with lying to a Senate committee about the CIA's role in the attempt to prevent Salvador Allende from becoming President of Chile, a Nixon-Kissinger project he had vainly opposed. Helms was fined $2,000 and received a two-year suspended sentence and a lecture from the judge about telling the truth. He felt it was his job to keep the secrets, and that he did - pointing...
DIVORCED. Pyrotechnic Rock Star Mick Jagger, 35, leader of the Rolling Stones; and Bianca Jagger, 34, Nicaragua-born actress and disco habitue; after eight years of marriage, one daughter; in London. After 18 months of transatlantic legal fireworks and a failed attempt to move the case to Los Angeles, jet-setting Bianca was granted a divorce in 18 minutes on uncontested grounds of adultery...