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Such was the case in 1960 when presidential contenders John Kennedy and Stuart Symington proclaimed a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union and criticized the Eisenhower-Nixon administration's lack of vigilance. Less than three weeks after Kennedy took office, Secretary of Defense McNamara admitted that the "missile gap" was indeed a fictitious one. The New York Times of February 7, 1961 reported that "Kennedy Defense Study Finds No Evidence of 'Missile Gap.'" During the next several years it became clear that there was in fact a gap, but that it was--and always had been--in the United States...
...MARY STUART by Wolfgang Hildesheimer...
This play begins in a death chamber. Gray, broody castle walls define the prison cell. In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift. It is Mary Stuart, pretender to the English throne, and the velvet-covered block on which she sits will soon receive her severed head...
...boss may have been defeated last November, but Stuart E. Eizenstat is not out of a job. The domestic affairs adviser to former President Carter said this week that he will teach a mini-course "investigating the role of the press in American politics and culture" at the Kennedy School of Government beginning in late March or early April...
...Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only to turn traitor to Jeb Stuart. Or "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet," a story about Vietnam, pro golf, incest and infantry tactics...