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...Victor Lasky thesis acquired new impetus and evidence. In It Didn't Start with Watergate, Lasky detailed a variety of dirty tricks and unsavory habits practiced by previous Presidents. John and Robert Kennedy played unethically rough in the 1960 primary campaigns against Hubert Humphrey. As President, J.F.K. got involved with a Mafia chiefs girlfriend. In a new book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, Author Garry Wills presents the Kennedys as an energetic but morally empty collection, fatally and somehow pointlessly ambitious. Wills is as ruthlessly eloquent-and often unfair-with the Kennedys as he was with Nixon in his 1970 book...
...parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...
...Task force is not a land-back operation, says Co-Chairman Victor A. Koivumaki '68, the alumni and reunions associate. "What I do when I wake up in the morning. Is I think of where something's going to go wrong," he explains grimly...
Within the State Department, officials say, there were some doubts about whether a woman should be sent into such a volatile situation, but Victor Tomseth, the newly appointed chief political officer, had worked with Swift in the East Asian bureau 10 years before. "Because I had worked with her before. I thought otherwise," Tomseth says...
...even without the renewed Polish tragedy, it ought to be self-evident that the United States' partners should favor policies inspired by a spirit of friendship and cooperation. This applies more than ever since the senseless escalation of the Falklands conflict into a bloody war whose real victor-and not merely in regard to Latin America-can only be the Soviet Union...