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...have been engaging in a primarily rhetorical war, with virtually everyone coming out, not too surprisingly, against crime, high taxes and of course those perennial whipping boys, the universities. When it comes to Harvard, the candidates trip over one another in their anxiousness to establish their credentials as bona fide critics of University expansion and the University's failure to increase its "in lieu of tax" payments to the city. Some candidates, like Brode, say that a simple shift in the attitude of University officials towards the community would go a long way towards relieving town-gown tensions. "The scientists...
...were the two networks being a bit disingenuous? "As CBS and NBC know," said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, "the FCC exempts from so-called equal-time regulations on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events." Although the President's speech certainly had political impact (see page 19), it was nevertheless a significant public event. Possibly the networks were trying to underscore their distaste for the equal-time rule by drawing attention to the fact that airing an address as newsworthy as the President's poses risks for broadcasters. In opposing the rule, the networks...
John Kennedy had been a bona fide war hero, but he was concerned a great deal about showing his manhood. He delighted in the story of how he called the big steelmen "s.o.b.s," and in fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that...
...main stream." He is director of a substantial fiefdom--but one very much apart from the rest of Harvard in time and in its basic assumptions and standards. He was a House master--but of the non-resident, catch all House. He graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular patch of miry clay from which the Lord drew Crooks--a poor Appalachian coal-mining town in western Pennsylvania--seems, years later, more and more lovely, not the horrible pit Crooks once...
Atheneum. $12.50. It is 1600, and English Captain John Blackthorne washes up in Japan during a failed attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Blackthorne is no simple salt but a bona fide Saturday-afternoon-at-the-movies hero with a "brooding, explosive violence that always lurked below his quiet exterior." His strength is as the strength of ten, and his brain is not bad either; he speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Latin fluently. Hardly has he learned to say Konnichiwa (Good day) before Blackthorne is up to his clavicle in inscrutable Eastern intrigues...