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...then said he had looked Graham up after the rally and suggested the reverend get together with his Senator son. Dutiful son that he was, J.F.K. did make it a point to cultivate the evangelist. Billy Graham and his like seem to have been edging nearer to the Oval Office ever since. Power attracts power...
...Nearer to earth, IRAS identified at least five new comets and spotted a "miniplanet" only 1.2 miles in diameter, possibly the cadaver of a comet, circling within the orbit of the innermost planet, Mercury. IRAS also uncovered some bands of fine dust spread over 100 million miles in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The dust may be the debris of collisions between asteroids...
...which, though some 160 miles northeast of the action, was the closest they could get. But there were no pictures of the combat on television screens that night or the next night, nor any dispatches from newspaper reporters on the ground. Members of the press were not allowed any nearer...
...Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer to their cameras. They leave us awed...
...leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism." But he had become disillusioned in his 70s when Lyndon Johnson, with flattery and lies, with private lunches and birthday gifts, had tried to bear-hug Lippmann into supporting the Viet Nam War. "Every time I pull my chair nearer that guy," L.B.J. complained, "he pulls his chair farther away...