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...time being, at least, this was not a time for overt politicking. The night of the assassination, Lyndon Johnson stepped uncertainly into the Oval Office of the President, then went to the three-room suite in the nearby Executive Office Building that he had used as Vice President. Across the street, he could see the lights beginning to go out in the White House...
...Crucifixion, a motif he has been studying since 1931, Bacon painted a triptych more than 14 ft. wide with enigmatic figures and bony carcasses looming in red oval rooms. The central panel contains a kneaded corpse lying in bed amidst a welter of congealed gore. There is no more overt Christian symbolism than that every man can find himself martyred meaninglessly. And the source of Bacon's idea is no mystery: two widely publicized sex murders took place in London shortly before he painted...
...brutal pages through the life-and death by gas-of Susan Rawlings. She is a career woman who has married one of her own emancipated kind -a successful journalist. Step by step, she withdraws from her husband, her children, and finally the world itself. There are no hysterics or overt scenes of disorder or despair. She simply rents a shabby hotel room and secretly goes there certain days in every week as if to meet a lover, actually to be alone with her terrible madness...
...Regarding your gratuitous credit for inspiration of our CIA exposé [Sept. 13], we wish to inform you that the inspiration came not from Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu but from the widely witnessed overt-covert games of coup promoters themselves, and from some of those who got interesting offers. Many people here believe that if Kennedy is trying to solve his own problems-special forces, brother, religion and social-disturbances-by blowing them up in Viet Nam and then knocking them off with a coup d'état, he will fail on both sides of the world...
...Roosevelt's Attorney General Homer Cummings failed to include lynching on the agenda of a national conference on crime. But as the N.A.A.C.P. had already discovered, and as Wilkins soon learned, the overt physical demonstration is not necessarily the most effective way to achieve Negro aims...