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...headlines by both sides' aggressive efforts at public relations. Much of the publicity favored Westmoreland. Once the suit reached court, Attorney Burt demonstrated that several key former officials who took Westmoreland's side either were not interviewed for the broadcast or, like President Johnson's National Security Adviser Walt Rostow, were left on the cutting-room floor. But Judge Leval counseled the jury that "fairness" was not an issue; Westmoreland had to prove both that the documentary was false and that CBS had good reason to know...
...bullpen man, not a starter. He is best over a short distance, writing verses about oldtimers' day ("On a green field/ we observe the ruin/ of even the bravest body") or recalling poets devoted to baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it?" Marianne Moore, the doyenne of 20th century American poets, was reduced...
...Unlike Walt Rostow, who worked for Lyndon Johnson and was not welcomed back at M.I.T., and Henry Kissinger, who chose, because of faculty opposition, not to return to Harvard, Jeane Kirkpatrick will be returning to academe. Her re- entry at Georgetown University as a teacher and thinker will no doubt create a few ripples. Perhaps her greatest legacy will be the rebirth of the idea that after an election America needs help from every quarter...
...bearded rebel from Paterson, N.J., also flaunted the subjects of drug use and homosexuality with an explicitness that would have unnerved Walt Whitman, the American bard whose confessional style Ginsberg's most resembles. Yet today, millions of housewives casually tune in to hopheads and gays on The Phil Donahue Show, and Allen Ginsberg is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of fellowships, grants and a National Book Award. He recently returned from a month-long tour of China as guest of the Chinese Writers Association. Once he might have declared the experience...
...made a sincere bid to take over Phillips and that all company shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought 12% of the stock of Walt Disney Productions and then sold it to the company for a profit of $32 million...