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Such FBI field investigations were required by Dwight Eisenhower for all his presidential assistants. One check eliminated a possible appointee to Ike's personal staff on the ground of perversion just before Eisenhower's inauguration. Kennedy, in his turn, ran checks on some aides, but not all. But in 1963, when the CIA suggested field investigations on Johnson Aides Moyers, Valenti, Reedy and Jenkins, there was a long, hostile silence on the White House end of the phone. The CIA, lacking legal authority to require investigations of presidential staffers, had no alternative but to give the four...
...Jersey: Incumbent Harrison A. Williams Jr., 44, the state's first Democratic Senator since 1936, expects to profit from an anti-Barry "frontlash" in his second-term bid. Challenger Bernard M. Shanley, 61, a former aide to Dwight Eisenhower, is trying hard, but with scant chance...
Like any convocation of veterans, they compared waistlines. But it was not just an American Legion wingding. It was a Manhattan dinner for 103 of the 282 living holders of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and eulogizing them were Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley. The heroes included some famous names, such as Flying Ace Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero...
...yourself. First, close your eyes and remember an article called "The Old Sentimentality and the New Sentimentality," which was written by the people who wrote this book, and which you read in Esquire a couple of months ago. Remember that the article involved taking lists of names, such as "Dwight Eisenhower, Bat Man and Jackson Pollack," and putting them under headings like "Old Sentimentalists," and then taking other lists of names, such as "Bobby Kennedy, Wonder Woman and Jeanne Moreau," and putting them under headings like "New Sentimentalists," and then printing them neatly with lots of white space all around...
...just had too many auditors this fall," Dwight L. Bollinger, coordinator of Romance language instruction, said last night. He attributed the increase both in regular enrollment and in auditors to a new program under which first-year courses meet five times per week. In the past such courses were held only three times weekly...