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Kennedy's team of White House men, according to Historian Joan Hoff-Wilson, began the pattern in which Congress and the federal bureaucracies became adversaries of the White House rather than partners. "That kind of privatization and centralization of power in and around the White House clearly begins with Kennedy," says Hoff-Wilson. For men who put such a premium on brains and information, the elite around Kennedy sometimes seemed either exceptionally naive (about the Bay of Pigs, for example) or ignorant (about Vietnamese history and culture). Some of the same men stayed on with Johnson, and presided over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.F.K. After 20 years, the question: How good a President? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...when play resumed, Larson's replacement, Joan Elliot, knocked the ball to Sevier at the top of the penalty box. After Sevier had spun and fired a high, hard shot well beyond the reach of the goalkeeper, it was all tied up and overtime was just minutes away...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Women Booters Shock UMass, 3-2 | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

...DIED. Joan Hackett, 49, elegant, intense actress best remembered for her first film role, as a neurotic Vassar graduate in The Group (1966), and one of her last, as an aging narcissist in Only When I Laugh (1981); of cancer; in Encino, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyman as Tragic Hero: Sir Ralph Richardson, 1902-1983 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...Joan Lamb, director of public affairs for the Selective Service, however denied that the ad campaign represented a change in emphasis or intensity in the bureau's efforts to register men for the draft. Lamb explained that the radio campaign was simply a part of the bureau's annual change in publicity campaigns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Radio Ads Aimed At Draft Non-Registrants | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

...performances are consistent even as the play itself spins towards its rapid denouement. LaPuerta and Dalton develop successfully their characters as foils for each other while Gallard and Kresty Abnastasio as another group member turn in strong performances each showing a new softness and sensitivity after the tragedy to Joan...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Radical Chic | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

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