Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of State Dean Rusk at week's end gingerly held out the possibility of a brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast...
...cocktail party dissenters, as well as the burgeoning cult of parlor detectives, the chief stimulant has been an outpouring of critical books on the subject. The biggest seller of all (110,000 copies) is Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which in effect is a defense brief for Oswald. Actually, the author admits: "My book is not an objective analysis; I've never said that I believe Oswald did it or did not do it. I say that had Oswald faced trial, he would not have been convicted...
...players. A mild-mannered man with a subdued sense of humor, he sometimes cracks a grin which might widen into a smile. At games he more often scowls up and down the sidelines. Yovicsin does not have any pretensions of being an inspirational coach. Pre-game speeches are brief and unemotional, and if anybody attempts to arouse the team, it is either a player or an assistant coach...
...middle of every November, the earth is involved in a headlong collision; it plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning...
...told almost entirely in dialogue. As an old pro, O'Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting for Winter. The stories in this new collection, ranging from a brief seven-page look at an ugly marriage to the novella-length Natica Jackson, add up to a fine job of summer's work...