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Kennedy had his obvious accomplishments. Merely by arriving at the White House, he had destroyed forever one religious issue in American politics. When Edmund Muskie ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, his Catholicism was only a minor biographical detail. Kennedy presided over a change of political generations in America, and did it with brilliant style. He brought youth and idealism and accomplishment and elan and a sometimes boorish and clannish elitism to Washington. He refreshed the town with a conviction that the world could be changed, that the improvisational intelligence could do wonderful things. Such almost ruthless optimism...
Drew Middleton, military analyst of the New York Times, remembers being one of days 30 correspondents briefed by General Eisenhower a full ten days be fore the Allied invasion of Sicily. Ike outlined in detail which divisions would land where so that the press could follow the campaign intelligently. Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which...
...Princeton Philosophy Department chairman. Paul Benacerraf, said the Princeton had made a concerted effort to persuade Scanlon to stay, although he refused to detail the specifics...
Despite IBM's secrecy, industry watchers have been able to describe the new home computer in fine detail. It is expected to come in a basic version with 64,000 characters of memory for $695, and an expanded model that includes a disc drive and twice as much memory for $1,295. Both versions will have far less overall capability than the PC itself, to keep them from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales. Perhaps the most striking feature of the new machine is a battery-operated keyboard that is not attached to the main part...
...There was nothing in those tapes that the Government hadn't described in detail" a year ago, at the time of De Lorean's arrest. So what was the news? All CBS had done, Hewitt explained, was to put "the real picture alongside the Government's word picture and show that they matched." In short, CBS believes that it performed the service of showing that the prosecutors were not lying...