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...were the sight and sound of the slain President likely to vanish in the months or the years to come. The assassination's aftermath continued to dominate network news coverage. Even now, three weeks after the event, NBC was giving an hour a day-about one-third of its daily news programing time-to reporting the effect of Kennedy's death on the nation and the world...
...thus stated, but they are seldom felt. In a film that asks little of its actors, Hamilton seems the same callow youth from first to last. Vincent Edwards, James Mitchum, Eli Wallach, Peter Fonda and dozens of others pop in and out of the narrative or simply vanish, presumably missing in action. There are no heroes. In one unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There...
...Nile will start rising next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the surrounding desert from Aswan to the Sudan. Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari...
Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
...seems to be "adamant" about the final list, will now set about acquiring the books. Some 400 volumes are on hand; another 2,200 (some of the titles come in sets) must be donated. Donors will get credit on the bookplate, and need not worry that their gifts will vanish. "This library belongs to the people of the U.S.," says Babb. "These aren't books a President can walk off with when he leaves the White House...