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When I ask Lee if he has as many teenage readers as younger ones, he draws himself up in his chair with the air of a man about to reveal the answer to a profound moral question (expecting his reply to provoke dismay). "As Marc Antony said as he stood over Caesar's corpse, 'If you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them.' We have"--he pauses dramatically--"as many readers from age 16 to 25 as we have from age 6 to 15. As a matter of fact, you're almost too young for me to be talking...
Four other experts have individually seen the available autopsy evidence since. One, Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner of Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, still challenges the single-assassin conclusion. To the dismay of some of his fellow critics, Wecht abandoned his earlier tentative opinion that shots could have struck Kennedy from the front; he too decided they had come from behind and above the President's car. But he does not believe the bullet that struck Kennedy high in his back also injured Connally. Based on his estimate of the bullet trajectories, Wecht contends that two assassins must have been...
...votes led even the professionally neutral Kurt Waldheim to express dismay. The U.N.'s Secretary-General deplored the danger that "we may lose the future through discord and confrontation." More predictably, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the resolution was "highly irresponsible" and had "added to the tensions, to the rifts and to the distrust" in the world. Congress was less restrained. Both houses denounced the action and promised an immediate reappraisal of U.S. involvement in the U.N. Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York charged that "the General Assembly has decided to institutionalize one of the world...
...deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
Even so, the crises left the city's overall fiscal situation still worse than before. The supply of financial tricks to keep New York afloat is just about exhausted, and the state's credit has worsened. To officials' dismay, Moody's Investors Service last week lowered its rating on New York State general-obligation bonds, from A a to A 1, which could cost millions of dollars in higher interest. At the same time, Moody's knocked down its rating on New York City bonds by two grades, from...