Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conrad has pictured Richard Nixon in checkered silks, supposedly symbolizing the dog Checkers. But, as any sports-minded person can see, Nixon's checkered silks represent the checkered flag used for winners...
...funeral would have plenty of chances to get together, particularly at a lunch and dinner given by the West Germans. Lyndon Johnson especially wanted to meet West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and he would, of course, see Charles de Gaulle, to whom he had not talked in person since President Kennedy's funeral. In the American delegation were Secretary of State Dean Rusk; former High Commissioner in Germany John J. McCloy; General Lucius D. Clay, onetime military governor of the U.S. zone; and former CIA Director Allen Dulles-all old friends of Adenauer...
...natural for speed reading, and soon other mechanical devices appeared on the market. They all attempted one of three things: to shorten the time per fixation, to decrease the number of fixations, or to increase the span of words which could be read at each fixation. If almost any person could learn to recognize four words flashed on the screen at 1/100 seconds, shouldn't a person be able to read 24,000 words per minute...
...tornadoes inflicted heavy fatalities in Oak Lawn, a southwestern suburb and in Belvidere, 65 miles northwest of Chicago. One person was killed in Chicago and another in suburban Stone Park...
MANCHESTER even mishandles some of his own ill-conceived notions about the assassination. The manuscript is peppered, for example, with snide, venemous, often fantastic references to both the city of Dallas and the person of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas, Manchester argues, epitomizes all the noisome features of American life which buttress lawlessness and unreasoning violence. Because the city was Oswald's home base, Manchester constantly seems to imply that Dallas supported and encouraged Oswald's instability and volatility--that the wickedness of the city had something to do with the wickedness of the individual. But the argument is never made...