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Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
...Walt Rostow, an archetype of the best and the brightest, spoke slowly and carefully, recalling in vivid detail a meeting that took place in April 1967. General William Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, had asked for 200,000 more troops. President Lyndon Johnson and top aides pressed for a date by which the American forces would win. As jurors in a Manhattan federal courtroom listened intently, the former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This...
...between the Panama and U.S. zones because ".. . if you were involved in a traffic offense on the wrong side of the street, you would be judged in an American court." In contrast to the new towers of Panama City lay a sprawling slum called Hollywood; even remote villages had Walt Disney figures as roadside totems. Greene once grumbled to Torrijos, "Next time the students want to demonstrate .. . can't you tell them to burn all those Donald Ducks...
...Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn't play...
...World's Fair fail so abysmally? Some blame a poor marketing strategy, others the $15 admission price. It may also be that the attraction of the onetime, small-scale exposition is over, outmoded by well-promoted, futuristic extravaganzas like Walt Disney's Epcot Center in central Florida. Or, as some soured Louisianans observed, it could be that the Knoxville World's Fair of two years ago, though financially successful, was so boring it discouraged people from going to New Orleans...