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...death of the President was recorded in several still photographs and on three film strips-though only one of the strips, owned by LIFE, shows the episode in full detail. Nevertheless, the moment of tragedy is represented here in a single frozen frame that shows Kennedy as an overblown blur...
...accomplished, and that success is mandatory. To achieve, it is only necessary to "reason together," for in a democracy it is always possible to find a majority that will agree on some compromise. This means that the compromiser should never state things too boldly-should, in fact, blur the edges of most big questions, unless, of course, a popular consensus has already chosen the bolder course...
...blocks west of the Bernauer Strasse tunnel, where 57 East Berliners crawled to freedom last week, an escape of another sort was taking place. Concocted of cigar smoke and the reek of raw schnapps, a blur of spinning spokes and the beat of a brass band, this form of escape goes by the name of "Sportpalast Fever," and can be indulged in once a year when Berlin holds its famed, phantasmagoric Six-Day Bicycle Race...
Canaletto's Venice was the 18th century's most worldly and sensual city. In the last, decadent century of its independence, the old republic was all pageantry and intrigue. From Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city...
...sleep, the candidate can race the sun westward. The day is usually 20 hours long. And to newsmen chasing two jets called Air Force One (Johnson) and Yia Bi Kin (Goldwater), the two prop jets Niagaran (Miller) and Happy Warrior (Humphrey), the campaign day is usually a 20-hour blur...