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...deed to his $60,000 Bethesda, Md., home had been subject to an anti-Negro covenant before he owned it. He bought the house ten years after the Supreme Court's 1948 decision voiding all such clauses. This was entirely different from the situation he had publicized in Austin, Texas, where an anti-Negro clause was inserted in the deed to property Lyndon and Lady Bird sold three years before the Supreme Court decision...
...Clause. Before 4,000 delegates to the Texas Republican Convention in Austin, Miller waved a 1938 deed for 20 parcels of land outside Austin bought by Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson with no restrictions of any sort. The Johnsons still own much of the land -now a valuable tract on Lake Austin surrounded by prosperous-looking homes. But in 1945, said Miller, the Johnsons sold seven lots of that property, and at that time a new clause was inserted in the deed-prohibiting "any person or persons of African descent" from occupying the property except as domestic servants...
Died. James Frank Dobie, 75, folklorist of the U.S. Southwest; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex. He called himself a Texian, adding the i and defining it as "one of the old rocks of the state." That he was, spending his life slouching across the land in battered Stetson and rundown boots, collecting all the tales, true or tall, of oil and gold, sheriffs and outlaws, then spinning them out in humorously irreverent lectures as the University of Texas' "Professor Pancho" and weaving them into 21 books, of which Coronado's Children and The Mustangs were among...
...Something Very Odd." In the course of campaigning in eight states, Miller also blistered Adlai Stevenson ("He wouldn't stay in our Administration five seconds"), Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ("You can't wage war today on a computer system"), and Lyndon Johnson's Austin TV station fortune ("There is certainly something very odd when you make it as a result of having a monopoly in a city within an industry that is controlled by the Government itself...
...week's end the President headed for the L.B.J. Ranch with Humphrey, got in some handshaking at the Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin, Texas, was guest of honor at a birthday barbecue for 3,000 at nearby Stonewall. He also aimed to do some campaign strategy-planning with Hubert "in the shade of the live oaks on the banks of the Pedernales...