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...October 1964 poll by Lou Harris showed that 31 percent of the American people doubted the crux of the Commission's conclusion--that Oswald had acted alone. The theorists came from all shades of life--from left-wing lawyer and civil rights activist Mark Lane, to Haverford College's philosophy professor Josiah Thompson. And many still harbor such thoughts today. The most common objections to the report's findings are as follows...
WHILE MANY OTHER technical and detailed issues have been raised, these four--data, linkage, verification, and assymetry--form the crux of the 10-year impasse between East and West...
...youngest sibling, Tommy (Dennis Christopher), forms the crux of the conflict. Tommy suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment, and needs a transplant--preferably from within the family--to survive. His only prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good...
...second Brett homered to right, and Nettles ran to Zimmer, and Zimmer ran to Manager Billy Martin, and Martin ran to the umpires, and the New York Times ran it on Page One, no one argued that Brett had taken or received any unfair advantage. And that was the crux of American League President Lee MacPhail's ruling four days after Brett was called out and the game was declared over: that the home run stands, and the last four outs must be finished on an off day if practical or after the season if necessary...
That is the crux of the matter in his view: a lack of conclusive proof for the charges against the Russians. Three conditions, he believes, must be met if one wants to prove chemical warfare--consistent, specific reports from refugees; a definite, clear idea of what chemical is being used; and the discovery of a spent or unspent munitions containing the chemical agent involved. Seven years after reports started filtering into the West that biochemical weapons may be in use in Asia. Meselson says, none of these conditions have been filled to his satisfaction--none, he emphasizes...