Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a long Fourth of July weekend on the Texas ranch, Lady Bird Johnson was rarin' to return to Washington and dive back into the elaborate prepara tions for Luci's Aug. 6 wedding. But Lyndon Johnson was in his natural hab itat and, in the absence of any pressing business, had no intention whatever of rushing away. Said he to Lady Bird: "The Cabinet's gone. Congress is home. You and I and [Bill] Moyers would be there all alone." So the visit was ex tended for the rest of the week - a week in which...
When he takes office Aug. 6, Barrientos may find that being a civilian President is far tougher than being a military strongman. Though his F.R.B. holds 100 of Congress' 129 seats, the front is badly split, which could endanger his legislative program. And it is out of such havoc that Bolivia's coups are made. Having made one himself, Civilian Barrientos is prepared for the worst. "If the government does not work," he shrugged to reporters on election clay, ''the military should intervene...
...having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party. It will be about the last respite for Luci before Aug. 6, her wedding...
...almost exactly a quarter of a century ago 1 (Aug. 4, 1941) that Charles de Gaulle made his first appearance on TIME'S cover. Then he was just emerging as a world figure-in wartime London, rallying his countrymen in and outside occupied France to his Free French cause. "In the field," said the closing paragraph of that first De Gaulle cover story, he has "only 40,000 men, but in France he is building a greater army . , . If Vichy and Hitler begin to crumble, the Free French in France will have not merely a fifth column. They...
...began. His first self-education was in guerrilla operations against the Japanese who then occupied Viet Nam. The OSS supplied Giap with American weapons to that end, but Giap was looking to the future: he cached most of them for use in the resumed struggle against the French. On Aug. 15, 1945, as the Japanese surrendered, he led his guerrillas into Hanoi and took over the city for Ho Chi Minh, and the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam was born...