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Kennedy's "final, firm" decision will probably succeed in discouraging further pressure on him to run in the cause of party unity and loyalty. But the fourth and last Kennedy brother was hardly renouncing the family legacy of active political leadership. At 36, he has many years to build his career and a safe Senate seat as a base...
...visionary, but a practical organizer, Owings says: "The old cities can be reorganized more cheaply, more efficiently and more quickly than we can build new cities. We could double the population simply by better use of the existing area, and at the same time organize the chaos." As he observes, an aerial photograph of any major U.S. city makes it appear to be bombed out; vast areas are given over to empty plots and parking lots. These, plus railroad yards and even highways, would make ideal sites for future new towns within towns, of which projects such as San Francisco...
...clear why the Russians chose to make some of their conciliatory gestures on nuclear arms. The likeliest guess remains the most obvious: prudent self-interest, a desire to avoid the scattering of nuclear weapons to small nations, and a grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from being elected," declares Columbia Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Humphrey adviser...
...with Rockefeller as an adversary. Like Rockefeller, McCarthy needs a deus ex machina. Like Rockefeller, he is trying to help Providence in a number of ways. His organization has proclaimed a "Month for McCarthy," a high-powered drive involving the dispersal of 55 field agents around the country to build up pressure on delegates. Telephone and letter-writing campaigns are being aimed at convention-bound Democrats. Lawsuits are being planned in some states to break loose votes now bound by the unit rule. For the convention, there is talk of challenging delegations from perhaps 14 states on grounds that McCarthy...
Withdrawal & Retreat. Ho began to build his legend by demanding an audience with Woodrow Wilson himself at the Versailles peace conference. He was, says Lacouture, "unceremoniously shown the door." Not long after, he joined the French Communist Party and began to fire journalistic broadsides at French colonials. "The disreputable old fogy," he is said to have written of one officer, "is leaving Morocco so that he can nurse his 'syph' in France...