Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment...
...judgment, your Kennedy cover story is the best piece of objective reporting ever printed, but one facet was forgotten: Were the non-attending wives polled as to their approval of the secluded cottage and the six young ladies...
...Mary Jo could have died anywhere from five to eight hours before 9:30 a.m., when he looked at the body. Even using a very outside limit of nine hours, that would have placed the moment of death no earlier than 12:30 a.m. Dr. Mills admitted that a judgment based on the degree of rigor mortis is "at best inexact"; there was no autopsy. Still, Mills' statement either casts doubt on Kennedy's account as to the time of the accident or, even worse for the Senator, raises anew the possibility that Mary Jo remained alive...
...concluded that the real question "is not whether the voters of Massachusetts can live with the Senator's account of the tragedy, but whether he can." To Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden, the case was tragic "in the Shakespearean sense of a puzzlement of the will, of judgment suspended and flawed at a crucial moment...
...TIME-Harris poll reflects a widespread uneasiness about Kennedy as a presidential possibility. Forty percent agreed with the statement that "he panicked in a crisis and showed that he should not be given high public trust, such as being President"; 15% were not sure; 45% disagreed with the judgment...