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...Deals. At this point, Manchester began to worry when-or whether-the book would be published. "I was told by Harper's representative," said Bobby, "that Manchester was becoming ill from an obsession with the thought that the book might never be published." Consequently, Bobby sent him a telegram in July saying that "members of the Kennedy family will place no obstacle in the way of publication." The Kennedys insist that the telegram "contained neither a waiver of any of the approval rights" nor an approval of the timing of publication...
...Bundy, Ralph Dungan, Kenny O'Donnell, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin, Dave Powers, Pierre Salinger, Jerome Wiesner, Ted Sorensen). Jake Jacobsen, another of Johnson's inner-circle aides, will also depart early next year. Moyers' replacement will be George Christian, 39, a former Texas sportswriter (the Temple Telegram and International News Service) who was Governor John Connally's press secretary before going to the White House as an administrative assistant in May of this year. Although Christian is known to be tough, quick-witted and able, he will concentrate on being a press secretary. At the moment...
...next year. On this basis, Mrs. Kennedy has a case. The Kennedys, however, have behaved so erratically in the past year that their sincerity is open to serious question. Last summer, after Manchester has finished the manuscript and it was being prepared for publication, Senator Kennedy sent him a telegram stating that "members of the Kennedy family will place no obstacle in the way of publication of his book." And at about the same time, a panel of former New Frontiersmen read the manuscript, and suggested changes and deletions which were accepted by Manchester...
Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
Still unresolved is how the new challenge would be issued. Eric Lessinger '68, a spokesman for SDS, said yesterday that a telegram could be sent directly to McNamara, or the Kennedy Institute of Politics -- sponsor of McNamara's visit last week--might be asked to arrange the debate...