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Just as it is true that the mind can conceive unending webworks of intrigue, so it is that the Kennedy assassination will forever evoke suspicions, claims, counterclaims and new theories. He was shot with one bullet-no, two. He was killed by one man-no, two, or maybe three. The fatal bullet entered his neck-no, his back. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist-no, a right-winger. Kennedy ordered his own assassination-no, Lyndon Johnson...
...dazzling entry in the race for the richest prize in aviation history, $25 billion in plane-building business over the next 30 years. The 2000 is designed to cruise at 65,000 ft., whisk up to 266 travelers at the 1,800-m.p.h. speed of a rifle bullet. It would fly across the U.S. in 2 hr. 10 min. or from New York to Paris in 2 hr. 45 min.* The design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose dips 15° during takeoffs...
...Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed, and the assassin's bullet cut it short before it was completed. But he, too, was a hero to himself. Visibly and with eloquence, he embodied the hope of a new start. His looks and his style, the glamour of his wife and his clan permanently enshrined him as the most romantic of U.S. Presidents...
...native of Hanoi who came south a dozen years ago. He mans a camera for NBC while his brother handles the sound equipment. Since he joined the network in 1961, he has been in on every major battle. Coolly sucking on liquor-filled candy, he pokes his bullet-attracting camera into the action from all angles. "You can't stay in one place like a reporter," he points out. "If you stay in one place, you get one picture. We have been very lucky...
...save-Hugo campaign, and by last week Hugo had become a national celebrity. Some of his notices were anything but raves. "The hippo, like a member of his family, the wild pig, is vermin of the first degree," one irate reader wrote. "The best treatment for Hugo is a bullet through the head." The majority, however, was siding with Hugo and making Tanzania's favorite hippo the hip thing. Last week Tanzanians were humming the "Hugo song." They shuffled, stamped and snorted to the "Hugo dance." One educator wrote a children's book based on Hugo. And hundreds...