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...figures dealing with both minor and momentous events had been preserved while only the President was aware that every comment, however unkindly phrased or crudely expressed, might one day be revealed. The names on the Kennedy logs evoked an eventful era: General Douglas MacArthur, former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
DIED. Malcolm Moos, 65, versatile scholar and political scientist who, as President Dwight Eisenhower's chief speechwriter, helped to coin the expression "militaryindustrial complex" in Ike's farewell address; of an apparent heart attack; at Ten Mile Lake, Minn. A prolific author (Politics, Presidents and Coattails and The Republicans: A History of the Party), Moos served as president of the University of Minnesota during the 1960s...
...describes conversations occurring between July 1962 and November 1963, on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis and the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to domestic issues including labor conflicts and civil rights issues. It mentions more than 100 public officials, such as former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman and several of Kennedy's top aides...
...notice the television close-ups of Shawn Weatherly, a.k.a. Miss Universe 1980, cheering for Dwight Clark in the stands of the Silverdome? The latest word is that she's no longer interested in husky NFL wide receivers and is falling for emaciated sportswriters who run the forty in eight flat. So you hadn't heard yet? Don't worry about it, neither...
...first big play by the San Francisco defense, an interception by safety Dwight Hicks on his own five-yard line, illustrated both the first-half luck of San Francisco and the numerous errors committed by Cincinnati...