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...Warren Report, issued more than two years ago after a ten-month investigation into the killing, said flatly that Lee Oswald-alone-shot Kennedy, wounded Texas Governor John Connally, murdered a policeman and was, in turn, shot dead by Jack Ruby, whom it pictured as a demented loner. The report was widely praised at first-but no longer. The discrepancies-real or imagined-surrounding the assassination have become an increasingly obsessive topic the world over...
...father had urged. But he flunked chemistry and vomited while dissecting a frog. He wrote a note saying that he had dishonored himself, then shot himself. A highly creative coed at a large Eastern private school scored high marks in some classes, dismal grades in others. She was a loner, obviously unhappy, and she jumped from the 14th floor of the campus library. In her room, authorities found a novel she had completed. Professors said that it showed great promise...
...Uninvited. In view of Romney's past record of running as a loner, Griffin had scant hope for help. But things are different this year. Romney now has realistic hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. His prospects were advanced last week by a national poll that gave the Governor only 2% less support than Lyndon Johnson. In another survey, top Republican "citizens" (as opposed to party professionals) rated Romney a heavy, 40%-to-29% favorite over Richard Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. As Romney well knows, the national Republican powers would consider him a leading candidate...
...solving Africa's problems. But if anyone had in fact delivered such an introduction in Washington last week, it would have applied with equal accuracy to a non-hirsute, non-Harvard winner named Jacob Koppel Javits, 62, senior Senator from New York, lifelong Republican and, like Bobby Kennedy, a loner athirst for bigger things...
...wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing of depicting The Halt of the Wise Men in 1878 with a recognizable Newport, R.I., background...