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DULLES by Leonard Mosley; Dial; 530 pages; $12.95
It would be too much to call the Dulles family the Kennedys of the Eisenhower years: the rectilinear and Protestant Dulles tribe did not throw each other into swimming pools. But the Dulles family had something of the same proprietary interest in the world and the power that runs it...
Foster is the Dulles whom Mosley clearly likes the least. He quotes a wicked story about Foster's first appearance before the House Committee on Appropriations to give the members a sort of tour d'horizon. State Department assistants had to ask if the Secretary could change the...
Allen was a womanizer. When his wife first discovered this, she coolly went to Cartier and charged a large emerald to his account. It was her "compensation," she told Allen, and every time he strayed he would pay a similar price. Mosley does not record how large Mrs. Dulles'...
The Anglo-French jet has been flying into Washington's Dulles International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17...