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Perhaps the most morbid of America's national landmarks was set ablaze last week in Dallas. Arsonists started a fire in the basement of the old Texas School Book Depository, the red brick seven-story structure, now the Dallas County administration building, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy in 1963. Because the decades-old sprinkler system had been turned off for repairs, flames made their way through the building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might...
...chances of finding work, the Administration has submitted a controversial bill creating a teen-age minimum wage of $2.50 an hour during summertime. The measure has been bitterly attacked by unions, who fear that it would undermine the current $3.35-an-hour rate. Says AFL-CIO Chief Economist Rudy Oswald: "We believe people should be paid for their work, not for their age or for their color...
...Columbia English professor, Hardwick is strongest with literary criticism, but weaker on popular issues. All too often she writes cryptically of popular media creations such as Billy Graham and, she suggests. Martin Luther King Jr. or rites of passage, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, '40. The Oswald Family"), and the past two decades ("Domestic Manners"), without revealing anything more than her own distaste for her subject...
Hardwick is often unenlightening just when she claims to be at her most revealing. Having savaged Lee Harvey Oswald as an unappealing holdover from the Depression years, she caps her appraisal with reference to his sex life...
Along with several complicated, never concretely established stories of Oswald as a CIA agent comes Oswald-the-FBI-agent. It is known that Oswald was in contact with the FBI. His notebook had the name, phone number, and license number for agent James Hosty. The Bureau says that Hosty had the duty of investigating Oswald and his Russian wife Marina to see if they were hard-core Marxists. Just before the assassination, Oswald sent Hosty a threatening note, which Hosty or someone else ordered destroyed. According to the FBI, the note only expressed anger over the harassment of Marina Oswald...