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...Bernie made his steady living in the garment business, moving from one job to another. At the age of 18 he fell in love with a girl he met at a Sweet Sixteen party, but instead married Lucille Raver "on the rebound." He found himself, on Aug. 29, 1938, the father of a baby boy. Bernie was only 24 and none too pleased...
...That connection established, Barthel turned to the tocapus embroidered on one notable Inca relic-a priestly garment, or uncu, now in Washington's Bliss Collection. He decided that the repetition of some of the tocapus meant that the same message was being emphasized. More important, he noticed that several signs, like Chinese pictograms, resembled real objects. That enabled him to pick out the symbols for the supreme Inca deity, Kon Ticsi Viracocha (popularly, Kon-Tiki), who is represented by the tocapu for heat (kon) and two bases of pyramids (ticsi), meaning foundation and earth. By the time Barthel finished...
Worst Light. The White House took the unusual step of replying to the charges. The vehicle was a telegram from Presidential Consultant Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief liaison with civil rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This...
...Garment refutation listed some substantial Administration moves, including the Philadelphia Plan to open construction jobs to blacks, a proposal to spend $1.5 billion to aid school desegregation and actual gains in Southern school desegregation. He also claimed Administration credit for the expanded Voting Rights Act that was finally passed, even though this was a far more effective bill than the one Nixon officials had proposed...
...Kennedy was duly courteous, though Jackie never bore much affection for the big, earthy Texan. He described her appearance after the assassination as "a tragic thing to observe. Here was this delicate, beautiful lady, always elegant, always fastidious. And what that morning was a beautiful, unspoiled, nicely pressed pink garment that was the last word in fashion and style and looks . . . and she still had the same garment on, but it was streaked and caked and soiled throughout with her husband's blood...