Word: vanden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviewed at length two weeks before he made his break by Marsha Vanden Berg, a reporter for Nashville's Tennessean. She gave TIME a glimpse of what James Earl Ray was like?and of the life he led ?just before his escape. He was dressed in prison blues and a gold windbreaker, and he looked fine, she recalls, "much better than his old pictures, and with good color in his face." His voice was high-pitched, and he spoke in short, broken sentences. His grammar was bad, but his mind was "clever and cunning." Ray rarely gestured, showed absolutely...
...outweigh aggressive salesmanship by General Dynamics and the U.S. Government. In the final hours before the decision, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger sagely offered Belgian policymakers a rationale for buying the F-16 while at the same time mollifying French-speaking voters. He gave Belgian Defense Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants assurances that the U.S. would consider buying $30 million worth of Belgian machine guns, which happen to be made in the French-speaking portion of Belgium...
...York, William vanden Heuvel, chairman of the city's board of corrections, suggested that many petty offenders be required to do various socially beneficial jobs like cleaning up their neighborhoods instead of serving short jail terms. Underlying it all seems to be a tacit recognition that almost anything is better than doing time in the current U.S. prison system...
...does not attempt to understand or explain him. Its failure to present a single coherent view of Kennedy-to illuminate his personality and probe it in depth-is a damning fault. Both authors were Kennedy "insiders": Milton Gwirtzman 54 was a political associate of Kennedy and William vanden Heuval was a close friend. It is surprising that they fail to go beyond the public view of Kennedy in their description...
TAKEN individually, some of the book's sections are partially successful. On His Own does a good job analyzing Kenned's involvement in New York state polities. Author William vanden Heuval knows Tammany well: he ran against John Lindsay for Congress in 1960 and was a candidate for governor this year until he failed to win any votes at the Democratic state committee meeting in March. His account of Kennedy's role in the campaign to clean up the Manhattan Surrogate Court by challenging the bosses candidate in the primary is written with a passion that is rare for this...