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Still, many of the critics insist that Oswald was not a good enough shot to have hit Kennedy twice with a cheap rifle. They contend that it was a difficult shot. In fact, the longest shot was 265.3 ft. from the sixth-floor window. To Oswald, peering through a four-power scope on his rifle, it looked like only about 22 yards. His target, moreover, was moving slowly and in a straight line away from him, rather than laterally...
CRIMSON-YALE DAILY--The longest major college newspaper winning streak goes on the line again, with little chance of it being broken. Crimson...
...little farther up the street, Give 'Em Hell, Harry occupies Central II, and next door in Central I, The World's Longest Running Feature continues. (And I thought it a disaster when the Sound of Music lasted 2 years in my home town.) James Whitmore recreates his state role as F.D.R.'s heir in Give 'Em Hell, Harry and from all accounts does Mr. Truman justice...
...RESIGNATION last week of Justice William O. Douglas marks the end of a fine career. Within the context of the American political climate during his 36 years on the bench, the longest term ever served by a Supreme Court Justice, Douglas established a reputation as a strong defender of freedom of thought and expression. In everything he did, from granting a stay of execution to the Rosenbergs in 1953, to affirming The New York Times's right to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, he has consistently supported the First Amendment. His opinions were always distinguished by a concern...
...little political capital for the sake of principle, he would lie down until it passed. A generation of Texas Democratic leaders learned that policy at the knee of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan whose favorite motto was "to get along, go along." That attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics is still dominated by Rayburn proteges like John Connally, Lloyd Bentsen and others of the same...