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Manchester lay ill last week in a Connecticut hospital, the victim of "reactive depression" and pneumonia induced by strain and fatigue. Jackie Kennedy vacationed in the British West Indies, and Bobby Kennedy still skied in Sun Valley - yet that did not stop defenders and detractors from choosing up sides...
Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty...
Another chapter in the history of John F. Kennedy's assassination drew toward a close last week. Jack Ruby, whose conviction for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
Initially, Davis' Catholic friends were too stunned to respond to the news, although Rosemary Haughton, a housewife and lay theologian, wrote to the Guardian that his defection "is a staggering blow to the whole church." Guardian Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote, "it is a blow as bitter as the one Anglicans sustained 100 years ago when John Henry Newman departed for Rome." Davis' friend and superior, John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, said only that he would pray "that God will guide him in all his undertakings...
...Staff on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler's armor moved into Poland, and ends on Dec. 31, 1942, with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue...