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...that some of the agency's advance security precautions were "thorough and well executed." But in the Secret Service's most important job?that of identifying and thwarting potential assassins?the Commission declares the agency to be "seriously deficient." Incredible as it may seem, the Secret Service did not inspect the Texas School Book Depository before President Kennedy's visit, did not know that Oswald worked there, did not even know who Oswald...
Catledge joined the staff in 1929, a young Southerner whose professional qualifications had preceded him to New York by two years. His entrée was accomplished by none other than Herbert Hoover, who had gone South to inspect damage done by the great Mississippi flood of 1927. Impressed by Catledge's flood stories in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Hoover mentioned them to his friend Adolph Ochs, then Times publisher. Ochs acted, and Catledge was on his way to Manhattan...
...94th birthday, it seemed like a sound investment. He quit shooting quail two years ago ("I couldn't keep up with the dogs, the birds or the people"), but he still looks hale and hearty, swims two or three times a week, and recently ankled out to inspect the World's Fair. Mighty quick on the uptake, too. When a young newsman asked the crony of Presidents and Prime Ministers whom he considered the greatest man of his age, Baruch barked: "The fellow who does his job every day. The mother who has children and gets breakfast...
...cultural pavilions-nearly all admission-free. More visitors (28%) comment on its "educational value" than any other aspect of the fair save its sheer "magnitude." Judging from the lines in front of the G.E., IBM, G.M. and Ford pavilions, the average fairgoer wants to goggle at scientific wonders, to inspect the future, or see a prehistoric spectacular such as Ford's battle of the dinosaurs (bodies by Disney...
GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama rolls along, riding 90,000 people daily past model cities of the future built in jungles, underwater and in outer space. After the trip, visitors can inspect a full line of today's G.M. cars and three sleek models designed for tomorrow's automatic highways...