Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conducted 1,000 interviews with 500 people. He spent a day in Gettysburg with Dwight Eisenhower, 31 hours over lunch with Chief Justice Earl Warren. In Dallas, he retraced on foot the route of Kennedy's motorcade. A meticulous reporter, he scoured hungrily for the small details that help illuminate the larger ones: how a flock of pigeons took wing from the roof of the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald fired his first shot; how an undertaker, before driving Kennedy's body to Love Field, asked a reporter whom he should ask about payment. Manchester...
...became perhaps the top policy adviser to the President of the U.S. He not only worked directly on many of the legislative matters of the Great Society, but took on the most disparate tasks-from foreign-policy trips to speechwriting to image-building campaigns-at which Lyndon Johnson needed help. Because of a trusting, father-son relationship with the President, Moyers also knew how to handle his difficult boss with a directness that few Johnson aides enjoyed...
...there is no evidence that the funnies are read in the Elysee Palace, though France's other national hero could hardly help noticing his pint-sized rival. Goscinny, a sergeant in the army reserve, has decided against sending a complimentary copy of Astérix to the general. "It would be a provocation," he said, "especially if I dedicated it to 'my dear fellow reservist...
...years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which Osborn unknowingly spilled his suborning instructions...
...lengths. He found that the energy produced was much greater than earlier observations had indicated (about 870 times that of the sun), and the star was radiating with inexplicable intensity at the longest wave lengths. On the theory that something was obscuring the visible light, Low asked Smith to help work out a mathematical model of a bright, hot star that was surrounded by a thick blanket of gas and dust...