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Some essays amuse and others inform; some are truly important while the value of others is chiefly historical. Some are trite and some just bore. The photographs (by Cecil Beaton and Edward Steichen among many others) and art reproductions in this oversize, handsomely bound volume are superb...
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Front & Center. On Monday, sunlight splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...economy and its welfare are very much on his mind. Barely 30 hours after he was sworn in, Lyndon Johnson began meeting with his economic advisers, and three times during the week he conferred with Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. His speech before Congress bore down heavily on the economic policies endorsed by John Kennedy-the tax cut, the stability of the dollar, the expansion of foreign trade. To Christian Herter, the chief U.S. trade negotiator, he restated his "strong support" for broad tariff reductions when the U.S. meets European nations at Geneva...
...headquarters. Sure enough, claimed the government, among them was a letter from Gbenye to the Russians asking for 5 billion in counterfeit Congolese francs to be used to undermine the Congo's currency, and another document requesting arms, tape records and "other espionage equipment." One of the letters bore teeth marks, as if a Russian had tried to swallow...