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...entered. "Politically," he argued, "everything had been moving the other way-toward a declaration of candidacy." Kennedy struggled with his choice at the fam ily's Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod over the Thanksgiving holiday. On that Friday, his administrative aide, Lawrence Horowitz, gave the family a three-hour presentation purporting to show how Kennedy could win in 1984. But the Kennedy children, unmoved by Horowitz's sophisticated research and strategies, objected emphatically to the effect on the family of a two-year run. By the end of the holiday weekend, Kennedy was convinced...
...matter how long he survives, life will not be easy for Barney Clark. He is permanently tethered to 375 Ibs. of equipment that includes two compressors, a back-up compressor, a three-hour supply of pressurized air to operate the heart in case of a power failure, a drier to dehumidify the air, and mechanisms that control the air pressure and heart rate. All of this gear can be placed on what his doctors call a "shopping cart," which must always be within six feet of the patient, the length of the power lines that emerge from just below Clark...
...hour. Even in prime time, the networks have found ways to stretch their self-imposed limits: an extra ad is run along with the 50-sec. "news briefs" injected into the regular programming. In the past few months all three networks have started selling an extra 30 sec. of advertising, overall, in the three-hour prime-time stretch. The networks say that they will not cram in more. One reason: advertisers believe that the more commercials a viewer is subjected to, the less attention he pays. Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president of the Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample agency: "Stations...
Saturday's three-hour parade down Constitution Avenue, led by Westmoreland, was the vets' own show. The 15,000 in uniforms and civvies, walked among floats, bands and baton twirlers. The flag-waving crowds even cheered...
...with nine American Secretaries of State during his 25 years in office. Since he speaks English fluently, he did not ask to have Shultz's remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological and chemical weapons. The conference produced few concrete results; the main accomplishment was keeping businesslike discussions alive and agreeing to meet...