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...House south lawn, the Johnsons greeted about 800 top-ranking military officers and Defense Department officials and their wives. In a jovial mood, the President ambled over to the bandstand, hoisted himself over a railing to shake hands with each band member. Cried an Army general in the audience afterward: "I thought you were going to play all the instruments. Mr. President." Replied Johnson: "I can play 'em all. I'm a switch hitter...
Reagan's own introduction, from a recent "autobiography," is more earthy: The story begins with the closeup of a bottom. My face was blue ... my bottom was red . . . and my father claimed afterward that he was white.... Ever since I have been particularly fond of the colors that were exhibited--red, white, and blue...
...walked out to the mound, threw 70 pitches and walked off with his fourth victory of the year, a 4-0 shutout. Only three Yankees got to first base, and the game mercifully lasted just 1 hr. 40 min. -shortest of the season. "I wanted to win," explained Terry afterward, "but I wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane grimly declared: "Anyone who figures we're washed up is just plain...
...years but who sold an important flight chart to the Nazis in the last days of World War II. Bullets and bodies start falling around him the minute he assumes the disguise. This book is in the older tradition of shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris-by-night tour-through the sewers, over the roofs, and into transvestite dens. For some Parisian reason, all the bad guy's spies are chestnut vendors. Another nice Gallic touch: as the heroine is about...
...Negroes' discontent with housing, jobs and schools, he paid a call on Massachusetts' Republican Governor John A. Volpe. King reminded Volpe that he had lived in Boston for four years while attending Boston University: "Boston is one of the cities I consider a part of my home." Afterward, King toured Boston's slummy Roxbury section, home of most of the city's 64,000 Negroes. Said he to one group: "Some of the same things wrong with Alabama are wrong with Boston, Massachusetts...