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...chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman ever elected a state Governor (in Texas in 1924, after her late husband, Governor James Ferguson, was impeached for misuse of state funds), recovering in an Austin hospital after a heart attack...
...Austin (700) ....................Sherman, Tex., 60 mi. N. of........ Presb. ..............$1,375 Dallas
...poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in hopes of picking up ideas. Another bootstrap operation is Oklahoma City University, which is remodeling itself completely after M.I.T. (TIME, June 6). At Texas' Austin College, a hefty new Ford grant is aimed at building the school into a Southwestern Amherst or Swarthmore...
Then, the night before the election, there was the "Austin-to-Boston" speech: ten minutes that must have puzzled a lot of people, especially Northerners, who saw Johnson throwing away Southern votes by the carload. "In the first week of the campaign," he began, "the grandson of two Confederates went to Boston. One week later, the grandson of two Irish immigrants came to Austin. The walls are coming down...
...probability, to himself, especially about courage. But while it is difficult to believe that L.B.J. is actually turning into a liberal, it is hard otherwise to account for his words. He didn't have to say them, any more than he had to throw Boston in the face of Austin...