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Allen will continue his three-part Holmes Lecture Series on "The Crimes of Politics: Political Dimensions of Criminal Justice" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Austin Hall...
...three days that followed, the nation paid tribute to the memory of Lyndon Johnson's gargantuan presence. As his body lay in state at the L.B.J. Library in Austin and later in the Rotunda of the Capitol, tens of thousands stood in line to pay homage at the bier -and to be thanked for coming by Lady Bird Johnson and her daughters. The dirges and the caisson and the white horses provided the traditional ingredients of a presidential funeral, but the rhetoric was somehow peculiar to the nature of Lyndon Johnson, as when Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...prisoners; and for the many times he would stop to talk farming with an Appalachian family or drop in on the old folks in the new nursing home down in Johnson City. "Didn't he live well?" Lady Bird Johnson asked a friend beside the bier in Austin last week. He certainly...
While Lyndon Johnson was speaking at the L.B.J. Library of the University of Texas at Austin last December, his voice was noticeably weak. At one point he seemed to rub his lips. Then his tone improved, and he finished his speech. What the audience-and later, television viewers-witnessed was a public demonstration of Johnson's severe heart disease and his characteristic determination not to yield to it. "It was almost the greatest pain you ever saw," he said later about the crushing pressure on his chest (angina pectoris). By sleight of hand he had transferred a nitroglycerin tablet...
...possibility. Now, not four years later, we read of a return to normality on college campuses, of a re-emphasis on academic endeavor. This past fall, the powers that be even discerned a wave of apathy breaking over educational institutions from Cambridge to Berkeley and from Madison to Austin. Yes, colleges and universities had survived the turmoil of the 1960s...