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...better answer to the crucial question lies in the seldom publicized accomplishments of Negroes in more private vocations. Here the barriers are tougher, and the Negro is less apt to be prepared, since to him many such fields have long seemed closed. Yet in science and education, the professions and in business, the armed forces and Government, even in elective politics, individual Negroes have broken the barriers, earned positions of respect and trust, and become part of the U.S. leadership community (see following pages...
Whether Lady Bird will set new fashions for U.S. women remains a question. She is a perfect size ten (5 ft. 4 in., 114 Ibs.), wears various shades of orange, yellow, coral and melon because Lyndon likes bright hues. When she appears in something more subdued, he is apt to growl, "Don't wear those old 'muley' colors...
...yearbook or supplied by a cap-and-gown manufacturer. From then on, every time he registers his car, makes the telephone directory, buys a home, rents an apartment, joins a book club, contributes to a charity, shops by mail or takes out a credit card, his name is apt to be noted by some listmaker. No matter how much he may regret it, his name is a marketable commodity, rented for 2? to 3? each time it is used...
...With more than 800,000 jobs going begging, unemployment insurance is largely an anachronism; last year, employers were actually exempted from their mandatory contributions. In 1961, six weeks a year of sick leave at full pay became compulsory, and since then industrial absenteeism has skyrocketed; the healthiest workers are apt to claim their six weeks as a sort of extra vacation...
...succession of Lyndon Johnson to the presidency, would affect the nation's economy. Most businessmen seemed convinced that the U.S. economy is currently too strong to be upset for long by the President's death, and that Lyndon Johnson is not a man who is apt to do anything willful to upset...