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...Telephones. It was one of the briefest retirements in political history. Within six months O'Brien was hard at work, organizing Massachusetts for John Kennedy, then a third-term Congressman and an unannounced aspirant to the Senate. Kennedy had known O'Brien casually for five years, had spotted him as a campaign organizer of rare talent. Within a year, O'Brien had recruited 350 secretaries, 18,000 volunteer Kennedy workers. By the time Kennedy formally announced his Senate candidacy, O'Brien was all ready with a purring statewide political machine. The O'Brien brain...
...heeled shoes. Her considered opinion: Cuba-shmooba. In her first installment, published last week, she took weary note of the countryside from the train bearing her to a camp rally in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Castro perked her interest a bit. He was "strong, smiling." But after the briefest of stays, Author Sagan left Havana, confided to a friend: "Cuba was dull. I couldn't wait...
Elegance & Experiment. In time, what was billed as revolution degenerated into mere ornamentation. By World War I, Art Nouveau was dead-perhaps the briefest art movement in history. Why, then, have scholars begun again to take it seriously? In the new view, it is seen as a genuinely liberating upheaval that gave some of the modern masters their first taste of bold experiment. Some of art's biggest names-Rodin and Ernst Barlach, Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Gauguin and Picasso-were at one time caught up in it. There is another reason for Art Nouveau's comeback. Its dipsy...
...Republican camp there was the briefest stillness as Vice President Richard Nixon left off campaigning for a short vacation in Palm Beach. It was shattered hours later in Albany when New York's Nelson Rockefeller announced plans for a November invasion of Nixon's own hunting preserve in California, with the implicit promise that the G.O.P., too, faced a real contest for its political blue ribbon...
...into Los Angeles International Airport 5 hr. 27 min. later, sat down with a bounce. He padded down the bright aluminum ramp, his light-colored suit flapping, looked detached and almost dubious about leaving the plane. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson stepped forward, handed out what was perhaps the briefest official greeting a U.S. city has ever given a visiting chief of state. Said Poulson: "We welcome you to Los Angeles, City of the Angels, the city where the impossible always happens." Khrushchev, who had the text of an arrival speech in his hand, gave it back to an aide...