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Lincoln died nine hours later. Booth lived like a dog while the search for him spread out across the country. Occasionally he saw a newspaper, only to read with bafflement and bitter disappointment that his crime had been condemned throughout the South. On April 26 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Va. Troops set fire to the barn to force him out and, as he was silhouetted in the flames, saw him felled by a single bullet. "Tell Mother I died for my country," he whispered as he was dragged from the fire...
Squash & Dates. The image of Huntington Hartford II as a serious intellectual is something of a bafflement to those who knew him when. Grandson and name sake of the founder of A. & P. young Hunt inherited about 10% of his grand father's holdings as well as a sizable in come from his father Edward, who made his own fortune with the development of the Hartford shock absorber. He went to St. Paul's before Harvard (class of '34), where his only serious interests seemed to be tennis (good) and squash (excellent...
Even the delays and disappointments illuminated the extraordinary American commitment to space. Space was frontpage news every day of the week, and the news was of failure and frustration. But the public reaction was a far cry from the humiliation and bafflement Americans felt four years ago, when their first feeble efforts to match Sputnik I were fizzling. There were no demands for anybody's head, there were few doubts that what ever had gone wrong one week would be fixed another week-soon. The Adminis tration had asked Congress to raise space spending $5.5 billion-nearly double...
Author Wilson's heroine is a smart, smug, vastly muddled and grimly girdled figure of middle-class bafflement. Meg Eliot is widowed in a fit of absentmindedness : her husband, a prosperous lawyer, is shot by a confused Asian student, who is really gunning for the Minister of Education of an Indonesian state. "If that had happened when we were young, there would have been a war about it," one character remarks. But there is no war, not even compensation for the widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young...
Needed: A Moses. The same bafflement was evident in the face and voice of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week during his grim, two-day appearance before the Agriculture Committee to argue his case for lower price supports.*The arithmetic of Benson's battle fatigue: when he took over as Agriculture Secretary six years ago, he vowed to slash the cost of farm programs, which had averaged $1.5 billion a year in 1950-52; but in 1956-58, Agriculture Department outgo averaged $4.5 billion a year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated...