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...conspiracy, and then was silenced by Jack Ruby. This impression was fed by the bad assumptions made by many reporters and commentators in the first minutes after the assassination in conservative Dallas, and it has never been fully erased. "The American press," declared Italy's left-wing magazine Vie Nuove in a recent issue, "has forgotten its glorious tradition of truth and democracy, playing along with the FBI and Dallas police to incriminate Oswald . . . who has no chance to defend himself." In Britain, that sometime philosopher, Bertrand Russell, has already set up a "Who Killed Kennedy?" committee to look...
...Republican Senate primary was more lively. Four men ran-each trying to sound more devoted to Goldwater than the others. Houston Oilman George Bush, 40, the son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, finished first with 62,574 votes, must vie in a June 6 runoff against Democrat-turned-Republican Jack Cox, 42, a Houston businessman, who got 46% of the 1962 gubernatorial vote against Democrat John Connally. This time...
Probably Quadrangle, Mr. Brick, and Northern Dancer will vie for the lead in the early stages of the Derby with Hill Rise kept off the pace and Dandy K. almost out of sight. In the stretch run, the leaders will fold, and Hill Rise will fly past them. Dandy K. should finish a fast-closing second, followed by Northern Dancer, Quadrangle, The Scoundrel, Wil Rad, Roman Brother, and Mr. Brick
Time was, when you could pull out drawer 1336 in the Widener Library public catalogue and count on getting the librarian's tranche de vie between EBNETH and ECHAVELAR. No more. So rapid has the growth of knowledge been, that now an even larger scoop of learning is within that slender tray betrayed...
...golfers travel to New York on Friday, where they will vie with Colum-that defeated them last Saturday by a bin and Penn. Neither team is rated score of 5-2, but they may put up a good fight...