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Hersh claims to present a "new history" of the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts previously accepted versions. But he offers almost nothing substantively new, other than an unsupported claim that Kennedy allowed himself to be deceived about Soviet intentions by a private, back-channel Kremlin source and hence delayed sending critical reconnaissance missions over Cuba in the fall of 1962. Hersh's clumsy effort to portray Kennedy's handling of the crisis as reckless and politically motivated is a much inferior version of an intelligent, if controversial, argument Garry Wills presented 15 years ago in The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation...
...format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis and the comdex computer shows, in a venture to start JSkyB, a 150-channel satellite broadcasting service in Japan...
...evening in late July, I was channel surfing, looking for something sufficiently mindless, when I came across a Charles Bronson film festival. "Chow Down With Chuck!" ordered the WABU 68 announcer, so I did. Ah, the campy violence! The atrocious special effects! The liberal use of the bluescreen! The painfully illogical plot! The script wrought with Dadaist precision! In a fit of foolish idealism, I blurted to my roommate, "You know, we sure have come a long way, at least in terms of action films...
...ARCO Forum's premier showing of "Thus Galbraith: The Life and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith," an hour-long feature scheduled to air next week on Channel 2, was preceded by introductory remarks from Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Henry P. Becton Jr., president of WGBH, and William E. Buckley, a longtime personal friend and political adversary who moderated Galbraith's documentary. Galbraith spoke briefly after the viewing...
This year for the first time, the Alliance included a panel discussion of alternative science careers. Panel participants included Channel 7 meteorologist Mishelle Michaels and Melissa O'Meara, a forensic chemist from the Massachusetts Crime...