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...Least Impact. Doubleday & Co. paid Kennedy a handsome $150,000 advance-making this the first of his four books not to be published by Harper & Row, which roused his ire during last year's acrid controversy over William Manchester's The Death of a President. Despite the fact that Look magazine also clashed with Bobby over its serialization of the Manchester book, Bobby accepted an additional $10,000 or so from the magazine for his new book's chapter on Viet...
...Aides Adam Walinsky and Peter Edelman, the mere fact that it bears Bobby Kennedy's name is bound to sell copies during the coming year. According to Bobby's aides, the book's release was actually timed to achieve the least-not the greatest-political impact. Had Bobby really wanted to stir up controversy, they say, he would have sprung it on the eve of next summer's nominating conventions...
...conclusions are Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After talking to various eyewitnesses, Thompson decided that...
Stella's work attracted attention almost immediately because it took abstraction one measurable step farther along the path toward pure form. The generation of Pollock and Kline had eliminated the figure; their canvases derived impact and emotion from the visible signs of struggle left by the painter's drips, splashes and violent brush marks. The "color field" painters of the 1950s, led by the late Morris Louis, eliminated the mark of the painter's hand, but their veils of color floating within the rectangle of a canvas aimed at evoking a haunting, lyric sense of other-worldly...
...such proposals may lead to even more roadside signs, there is increasing concern that the posts bearing them may be themselves not unduly dangerous. The Federal Department of Transportation is placing top priority on development and distribution of signposts with so-called "frangibility," meaning that they break away on impact. After a motorist in Texas was killed crashing into a conventional post, the state replaced it with a frangible one; a few days later, right on schedule, another driver plowed into the new post-and walked away without a scratch...