Word: austin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every major U.S. city from Boston to Seattle, from Detroit to New Orleans; there is a 50-member cabal in, of all places, Austin, Texas. There are outposts in Paris and London, New Delhi and Katmandu, where American hippies trek the "hashish trail" to get cheap but potent hallucinogens and lessons in Buddhist love. Though hippies*consider any sort of arithmetic a "down trip," or boring, their own estimate of their nationwide number runs to some 300,000. Disinterested officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic...
...That's an elephant, isn't it?" grinned Patrick Nugent. Proud and nervous, Pat announced to reporters at Austin's Seton Hospital that upstairs his wife Luci had just given birth to an 8-lb. 10-oz. son, the President's first grandchild. Name: Patrick Lyndon...
Born. To Luci Johnson Nugent, 19, and Patrick John Nugent, 23: a boy, President Johnson's first grandchild; in Austin, Texas...
Johnson had previously planned to spend ten days at his Texas ranch, awaiting the birth of his first grandchild, playing host to Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt, and mending some local fences. Instead, after flying down to Austin for a long-scheduled Democratic fund-raising dinner at week's end, he jetted back to Washington the same night, touching down at 3:30 a.m., an hour and a half before Kosygin's arrival in New York. Johnson also shifted his weekend meeting with Holt from the L.B.J. Ranch to Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin...
...Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable and secure existence." Only then, he added, can they "count upon the friendly help of the United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East-as in Viet...