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Rose Kennedy has lost four of her nine children in violence: John and Robert assassinated, Joseph Jr. killed in World War II, Kathleen dead in a plane crash. Another daughter, Rosemary, is mentally retarded and Joseph Sr., now 80, has been incapacitated for eight years by a stroke. She reserves much of her time for her ailing husband, who is now no longer able to come downstairs...
Apart from the famous exam-cheating episode at Harvard, there were numerous pranks?riding a bronco in the West or landing a plane without adequate training. Recently, his desire for kicks seemed to friends to be tinged with a tomorrow-we-die spirit. He seemed in private more fatigued by the demands of his public image. As LIFE reports this week, Kennedy would be in a room and feel people pressing in on him. His aides would hear him mumble "T.M.B.S."?Too Many Blue Suits ?and they would know that it was time to clear the room...
...dawn, heavy artillery was roaring all along the Suez, and early that afternoon Israeli fighter-bombers thundered across the canal to attack antiaircraft batteries and several SAM missile sites. For three hours, the Israeli planes had the skies to themselves. Then, at dusk, Egyptian MIGs and Sukh017 fighter-bombers raked Israeli military installations along the canal and swooped some 60 miles into Israeli-held Sinai, in their deepest penetration since 1967. In the dogfights that developed, Israel claimed five Egyptian jets downed-and, for the first time since 1967, admitted losing a plane to enemy air action (Cairo...
...canal. That afternoon, Egypt hit back on a larger scale. More than 40 Egyptian aircraft went after Israeli installations. The Israelis responded with fighters and Hawk antiaircraft missiles, and the battle was on. Late in the day, the opposing propagandists entered the fray. According to Egypt, six Israeli planes were downed and one Egyptian plane was lost. The Israelis, citing photographic proof, said that seven Egyptian jets were downed and two more damaged, and admitted no losses. Over the next two days, when Israeli jets again lashed at Egyptian positions along the canal, Egyptian aircraft made only one attempt...
...Dietrich backstage messes with a young actor. The ringmaster steps on stage, but Jannings refuses to come from behind the gauze curtain which partly obscures him. Sternberg cuts to high-angle shots of the rowdy audience, instead of stage-level shots which would show Jannings on the same moral plane, and then as Jannings on the same moral plane, and then as Jannings comes on stage to a terrifying long shot of the stage, rectangle of light, surrounded by the darkened hall and crowd. Despite the weight of this darkness, our attention is riveted to the personal drama...