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...perfect sincerity, Johnson thinks of himself as being President of all Americans- which he is. He would also love to see himself regarded as a bi-partisan leader, and he insists that all of his speeches, his travels, his handshakings are "nonpolitical." This is some thing much akin to Arnold Palmer's claiming that he plays golf just for the exercise...
...religiously that one rival innkeeper calls it "a synagogue with bedrooms." Besides separate kitchens and dining rooms for meat and dairy dishes, there is a purifying bath, or mikveh, in which men immerse themselves before holidays and Sabbaths, and women after menstruation and childbirth. A staff rab bi conducts services at the hotel's own synagogue three times a day, and the chief work of hairdressers at the Debo rah's beauty salon is setting the wigs of Orthodox women who usually crop their hair and keep it covered after they marry, as a sign of modesty...
...Much legislation, in fact, never goes before it. The Generalissimo can make law by publishing any order in the government gazette, the Boletin Oficial del Estado. The cabinet plays a more important role in the business of state but it, too, is subject to Franco's whim. At its bi-weekly meetings Franco presides benevolently. "The Caudillo patiently listens," writes a junior minister, "while government members argue at length with one another. He talks little himself but makes all the big decisions--alone." Similarly, ministers are awarded portfolios or replaced altogether by a simple letter from Franco. The government...
...Stone, editor of the Washington journal I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, will speak on Viet Nam and Cuba at 8:15 tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Stone has criticized U.S. dealings with both countries...
Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...