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While astronauts, scientists and religious leaders have all succeeded Lindbergh through the years, those with the most impact on news have usually been the world's - and America's - political leaders. Franklin Roosevelt was selected three times; Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson twice. During the past twelve months, few people have so dominated the air waves and newsprint as have Richard Nixon, last year's choice, and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger...
...Diseases, believes that review boards should be established to evaluate the nature and quality of treatment provided kidney patients in hospitals and private facilities. He also feels that they should determine which patients are suitable candidates for either dialysis or transplants. (Dialysis was ruled out for former President Harry Truman, for example, because doctors felt it would not appreciably improve his condition.) Without such monitoring, abuses could jeopardize efforts to extend similar coverage to other diseases...
Papa was preceded, and followed, by other men of letters, including Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Michener, Norman Mailer and James Dickey. Winston Churchill chose LIFE to publish his memoirs, and so did Harry S. Truman, the Duke of Windsor, Charles de Gaulle and Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur. It was with these memoirs that LIFE underlined its growing concern with the lessons of history...
...story takes pains to point out that there is no proof that either President or Mrs. Kennedy received amphetamines from Jacobson. Nor does it say which of those on Jacobson's patient list-which included such names as Author Truman Capote, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Singer Eddie Fisher and the late President's brother-in-law, Prince Stanislas Radziwill-actually got speed. But the story does establish that amphetamines were often a part of Jacobson's prescriptions...
...McGovern's. In the latter case, numerous supporters, fed up by McGovern's prevarications and backdowns, dimmed in involvement. So they may with Kennedy. If voters perceive widespread Kennedy retreats on positions he was thought to have been previously locked into, they may come to agree with Harry Truman that, "No professional liberal is intellectually honest." Continued trampling of McGovernesque concerns may turn Kennedy's base into political sand...