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...suite at Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone last week strode Barry Morris Goldwater, his jaw squared, his iron-grey hair brushed back. A flood of humanity, with its placards and dizzying array of Goldwater-for-President buttons, heaved against him as he tried to push his way through. "God bless you!" they cried. "The country needs you, Barry!" they yelled. "I want to shake your hand! You're the only real Republican in the running!" A man thrust a book under his nose shouting "Autograph my Bible!" and handed him a copy of Barry's credo, The Conscience...
...Force Base, and Lyndon Johnson stepped out, looking like a king-sized Martian in a ten-gallon hat. "I've come to see my leader," he announced. A waiting Air Force staff car whisked him to Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
...Herter." The cheers and the chants-"Cuba, yes! Yankees, no!"-that followed Che's words are the mood of Cuba today. The familiar grey wood shacks with thatched roofs still stand between the moist green of mountains and banana trees and the dazzle of sparkling sea. Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro. Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine...
...only one truly basic difference between fresh and used paper: ink. Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week in Chicago, Marshall Field's Sun-Times and Daily News...
...named Benjamin Franklin Ivey. The preposterous melodrama that hinges on this case of mistaken paternity is remotely interesting only because perennially bestselling Author Weidman (I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp) has fashioned Ben Ivey in the unmistakable outer image of Harry Hopkins, that famed, dark-grey eminence of the New Deal...