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...Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still the underdog, he occasionally allowed his schedule to lapse back into its old inefficiency, so that he sometimes saw more billboards and countryside than voters. Nixon, who had run a precise and frequently leisurely campaign to avoid mistakes born of weariness, was looking-and sounding-a bit tired. He was making occasional small fluffs, as when he declared his intention to move into "1400 Pennsylvania Avenue." The White House address is 1600; Nixon's Washington headquarters is at 1400, in the old Willard Hotel that will soon...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
Shotgun Barrage. Sullivan, 51, seems to relish tough jobs. Born in Manchester, N.H., he holds advanced degrees from Columbia and Harvard (Ed.D., 1956), served as a school superintendent in Maine and on Long Island before setting up a private school system for Negroes in Prince Edward County, Va., in 1963. There the public schools had closed rather than integrate, and Negro children had gone untaught for four years. Sullivan persisted in launching the new schools despite continual threats and a shotgun barrage on his house...
Elson's book points up the interesting origins of the two founders. Henry Luce: son of a devout Presbyterian missionary, born in China, his fondest memories of Fourth of July celebrations when the Americans clasped hands in the "hush of eventide" and sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America...
...atrophy of the liver. The virus had damaged so many liver cells that metabolic wastes were piling up and poisoning him. Alarmed doctors notified John's father, Peter F. Bayne, a school administrator in Claremont, Calif., and the Peace Corps called on Dr. Charles Trey, a South African-born research physician now at Harvard. Trey managed to get to Bombay in two days. He estimated that 90% of young Bayne's liver had been knocked out and gave him only a 10% chance of survival. Even that depended on the treatment that Trey had devised, in which...