Word: austine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is essentially a sidelight, "Covering a Massacre," in PRESS, reports on how Austin's KTBC radio and television station, owned by Lady Bird Johnson and her daughters, and usually geared to the relatively quiet pace of a college and capital town, covered one of the wildest days in the city's history...
...forenoon of a blazing August day, a blond, husky young man strolled into a hardware store in Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition. As he calmly wrote a check in payment, the clerk inquired with friendly curiosity what all the ammunition was for. "To shoot some pigs," he replied. At the time, the answer seemed innocent enough, for wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas...
...fiance "has pretty much saved up because we haven't been going places, and we feel as though we can make it with what we both have right now." In all probability, Pat will work several hours a day at KTBC, the Johnson family TV station in Austin...
...first house will be considerably more stylish than the average students' quarters. Luci noted that it has "two skylights, which I find just great, and besides, they save electricity." More specifically, the house at 1105 Heritage Way, of a type that rents for about $165 a month in Austin, is half of a new two-family duplex in one of the city's better residential neighborhoods. The Nugents will have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a cathedral ceiling in the living room, wall-to-wall carpeting in two rooms, an automatic dishwasher in the kitchen, air conditioning throughout...
...remain an ordinary citizen, the mantle of First Son-in-Law will inevitably shape his life. He is already, for example, chary of a career in the capital, where almost any job that he might take would leave him and the White House open to charges of influence. In Austin, at least, the newlyweds can take their place comfortably in the provincial squirearchy...