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...Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
Mark Lane-and others-theorize that Kennedy was shot from a grassy knoll in front of the motorcade, that Oswald's 6.5-mm. Italian rifle was planted in the Book Depository sniper's nest to frame him, that Jack Ruby was part of a widespread plot to eliminate Oswald before he squealed, that slain Patrolman J. D. Tippit was likely in league with the assassins, and that a bullet fired from Oswald's rifle and found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital had been planted there by unknown conspirators...
...chandeliers, swooped in on their targets with bombs and bright orange seas of napalm. From the far distance, across the DMZ in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, came the winks and streaks of antiaircraft fire aimed at American jets blasting the enemy's supply dumps. On a knoll less than two miles from the zone, the Communists have remilitarized, a Marine officer stood fascinated by the spectacle for a while, then turned to his companion. "It beats the Ed Sullivan show, doesn't it?" he said...
...commission said flatly that the President was shot from above and behind and that Oswald fired from the sixth floor after the limousine had passed, no fewer than 58 of the 90 eyewitnesses questioned about the source of the two shots thought that they came from a grassy knoll on the right side...
Obsessed with Crisis. The complexities of U.S. world involvement were clearly on the President's mind as he called the roll at Arlington on a knoll overlooking the Potomac. "The conflict in Viet Nam," he confessed, "is confusing for many of our people." Yet, strangely enough, the President himself has contributed to that confusion. For weeks now, Administration policymakers on Viet Nam have seemed obsessed, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with the Buddhist crisis. To be sure, the U.S. can hardly ignore the bitter feud between Premier...