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...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Harvard Historian-New Frontiersman Schlesinger's admiration for the late President is often obvious, but this is nevertheless by far the most perceptive, the most vivid, and the best-balanced assessment of the Kennedy years that has yet appeared...
...Zhivago's love child, found working on the set "terribly intense." Tom Courtenay grimly recalls being asked to pose as Strelnikov on the platform of the armored train: "No dialogue. No expression. But that bloody scene took two days to shoot." Geraldine Chaplin's most vivid memory is working in the hot Spanish sun while wearing black wool stockings, boots, three sweaters and a fur jacket: "I was so soaking wet, I felt I was leaving big soggy footprints...
...singing in the orchards of their mothers. Robert Strausz-Hupé is such a one. His childhood was a hazy idyl of life in old Vienna, of goose-liver breakfasts on the paternal estate in Hungary. This Eden soon closed its gates, but at 62 he still has a vivid memory of what life was like on the sunny side of the great watershed of World...
...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Some of Kennedy's advisers stood nearer the President, but none was better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to pay public respect to his memory. Perceptive as history and vivid as memoir, this-despite its touches of partisanship-is the most balanced assessment yet of the Kennedy years...
Corkscrew Soul. Hartmire and eight other Protestant ministers have lately been in jail for "unlawful assembly" while picketing. Another minister, David Havens, 29, of the Disciples of Christ, was arrested for "disturbing the peace" by reading aloud to imported strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks...