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With those anguished words to close friends last week, Jacqueline Kennedy set in motion the biggest brouhaha over a book that the nation has ever known. The book was no ordinary one: it was William Manchester's The Death of a President, which has been awaited as the authoritative account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. The late President's family carefully hand-picked both the author and the publisher-neither of whom had sought the assignment-and offered them exclusive access to information and key figures, hoping thereby to avoid "distortion and sensationalism...
...snorted one Congressman, "the Government's biggest free offer to all comers since the opening of the Cherokee strip to the homesteaders in 1893." Indeed, when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission started searching for a site for its new $375 million atom-smashing accelerator 21 months ago, 200 or so communities in 45 states came forward with a pitch. No wonder. The competition was for an installation that would mean 3,000 new scientific and technical jobs, 9,000 new residents and a $21 million-a-year payroll...
Mouths Agape. As promised, the Mountbatten committee went right to work, toured the biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
Third period goals by Chip Otness and Bob Fredo were not enough to overcome Cornell's 4-1 lead. But they put doubt in the minds of the biggest turnout ever at Ithaca's Lynah Rink about the Big Red's ability to stay ahead of the Crimson when the action shifts to the Boston Arena next week and to Watson Rink in February...
...Richard Condon, John O'Hara and James Michener, Philip Roth, Budd Schulberg, Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren. In 1960, when Cerf acquired the house of Knopf, the names of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Hersey and John Updike joined the parade. Cerf's biggest book of the year is the 2,059-page Random House Dictionary of the English Language, which took a decade and $3,000,000 to put together. Amazingly, for a reference book, it has been on the bestseller list for six weeks, and the first printing of 325,000 has already...