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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they don't," he said, "boy, I'm dead." At week's end, Whitaker was much alive...
...close to genius. He sensed disaster approaching in 1929 and well extricated himself from the stock market before the crash. He made at least $1,000,000 by selling short when the panic came. "Only a fool," he told a friend, "holds out for the top dollar." Foreseeing the end of Prohibition, he cornered the franchise for Gordon's gin and several Scotch whiskies, imported thousands of cases "for medicinal purposes." When repeal came, Kennedy warehouses were bulging and ready for business...
...Another was created in 1936, and still another in 1949. The latter trust fund is the vehicle through which Kennedy settled portions of his wealth on his 28 grandchildren. The three trust funds and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation are the chief instruments of capital conservation. At the end of 1968, the foundation had assets of $22.1 million, and it disbursed $1.6 million, almost entirely for research in mental retardation...
Voyage Home. Instead of heading home immediately, the three astronauts spent another day in lunar orbit. The delay gave them time to take photographs of prospective landing sites for future Apollo missions. At week's end, after being flung out of lunar orbit by its powerful engine, Yankee Clipper began its long three-day voyage home...
Instead, he encounters the world. A power-mad dictator, Shogo, establishes a great city but it is overthrown by Blimpish invaders blasting away with gunboats and Christian hymns. This regime establishes an inner tyranny of sin and guilt, and it too collapses. At play's end a nude man, all but drowned, clambers out of a river and towels himself off-the naked ape-a genius at survival and a dunce at self-transcendence...