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...Baton Rouge...
Triangulation of Crossfire. Garrison's star performer was Baton Rouge Insurance Salesman Perry Raymond Russo, 25, who seemed a perfect witness for the prosecution-until the defense began questioning him. Russo said that in September 1963 he heard a plot to kill Kennedy revealed during a late-night party at the New Orleans apartment of David Ferric, the ex-airline pilot who died last month. Also present were two men whom Russo knew as "Clem Bertrand" and "Leon Oswald...
...those there on the scene would be a kind of scapegoat-one had to be sacrificed." Discussing escape routes, Ferrie suggested flying to Brazil with a refueling stopover in Mexico, or directly to Cuba. Played in court later was a television interview that Russo gave to a Baton Rouge station last month in which he quoted Ferrie as saying, only a month before the assassination: "We will get him, and it won't be very long...
...real duel developed between Harvard and Navy, and it wasn't decided until the last event -- the mile relay. The Crimson took a third there when Army's anchor man dropped the baton, and Harvard edged the Middies out by one point over...
Underlying Waves. No glamour boy on the podium, Davis guided the Met orchestra through Britten's surging score with the firm and unerring hand of a ship's captain riding out a sou'wester. His precise baton gave full play to the music's quick, dramatic climaxes, while deftly sustaining the rhythms of wind and waves. His beat was decisive, his attack well balanced and logical...