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...James Roosevelt Jr. '68 challenged Joseph P. Kennedy II to a half-hour televised debate in their bids for the 8th Congressional District Democratic nomination in the Sept. 16 primary, but Kennedy aides said...
...news conference Wednesday outside Kennedy's campaign headquarters, Roosevelt said he had purchased time on WNEV-TV, Boston's Channel 7, for a one-on-one debate with the front-runner. Kennedy leads the polls, which give him about a third of voter support. Other voters appear to be split among the 10 remaining candidates. Melvin H. King and State Sen. George Bachrach are tied for second place, while other candidates lag behind...
...asking ever since Joseph P. Kennedy II entered the Eighth Congressional District race last fall. You can also bet that the rest of the candidates in the district are wondering the same thing, only with a slightly different ethnic twist, such as: What's a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to do when competing against another political icon...
...abundance of lore about the OSS has long since surfaced: how Lawyer Bill Donovan, a heroic World War I officer, jury-rigged the intelligence agency President Franklin Roosevelt wanted by recruiting an elite of socialites (Polo Player Raymond Guest), millionaires (Paul Mellon), intellectuals (Archibald Macleish), journalists (Stewart Alsop) and performers (Sterling Hayden). How the OSS got to be twitted as "Oh-So-Social." How it nurtured such future CIA leaders as Richard Helms, Angleton and Casey...
...Bali, indeed, is this litany of laments. " 'Isn't Bali spoiled,' is invariably the question that greets the returned traveler," wrote Miguel Covarrubias. That was in 1937. "This nation of artists is faced with the Western invasion, and I cannot stand idly by and watch their destruction," wrote Andre Roosevelt, introducing a book titled--what else?--The Last Paradise. That was in 1930. Fifty years later, thousands of visitors continue to "discover" Bali each year, acclaim it as a paradise and, once home, mourn that it is lost forever...