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Where power goes, there goes history. The meeting between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 may have precipitated the Cuban missile crisis because the Soviet leader thought he faced a callow kid. Lyndon Johnson used his jet like seven-league boots, striding over the world with low-calorie root beer and Texas steaks in the galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night...
...Hood, a former U.S. State Department employee cashiered for punching an official of the South Vietnamese government. Filled with hatred, he stays high on opium and waits for a call to action from the provisional wing of the I.R.A. Mum is Mayo, who has ties to the Provos, a callow sense of Realpolitik and a Flemish masterpiece that she stole from a London museum. The kiddies are Murf, an idiot savant at wiring up explosives, and his girl friend Brodie, a pert little simpleton who totes bombs to their destinations...
...worthy addition to American social geography, and his odd, tormented personality contained enough fascinating quirks for several men. "John, I'm your friend," Robert Benchley once told him, "and all your friends know you're a son of a bitch." Almost from the moment the callow young reporter reached New York in 1928, he gained notoriety as a prodigious writer, a snob and a mean drunk. He kept blacklists of friends who had offended him. One such victim was Author Budd Schulberg, who was cut by O'Hara at the "21" Club. When a bar fly began...
Manic Energy. Despite her unprecedented popularity, she grew increasingly dissatisfied with America and Americans, elevating snobbishness, her most unpleasant characteristic, to the height of religious pride. "Such dreariness, such whining callow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!" she wrote after spending a night at a Massachusetts hotel. "What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast." More and more time was spent in Europe, and finally Edith and the ever compliant Teddy took an apartment in Paris, returning...
President Gerald Ford assured his press conference last week that he always kept his temper, except for "occasional outbursts on the golf course." Nonetheless, he was obviously angry over the callow opposition of some Americans to resettling about 115,000 Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. At a meeting with Republican congressional leaders, the President said that he was "damned mad" and added: "It just burns me up. These great humanitarians -they just want to turn their backs. We didn't do it with the Hungarians. We didn't do it with the Cubans. And damn...