Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remote Summit. Late last week, the President, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci waited in the darkness at the White House south portico as the Nixons drew up in a big white Continental on loan from the White House motor pool. Inside, Nixon and Johnson talked in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half; it was their second encounter since Election Day. They discussed everything from housekeeping in the Executive Mansion to Viet Nam, the Middle East, and a possible summit meeting with the Russians before the President leaves office...
Arriving in Bangkok, the young Marine loped over to the pretty young lady in the red dress, gave her a big hug and kiss. Then Chuck Robb and Lynda politely but plainly told newsmen they wanted to be alone to enjoy his R & R after combat in Viet Nam. A photographer did snap them atop an elephant but, aside from that, they were left in peace for five days of sightseeing and shopping. Then, off to Danang for Chuck, home to a Texas Christmas for Lynda and back, as she said, to "writing each other every...
...could the novices estimate the strength of their reefers. They guessed right eight times out of nine on the dummy cigarette, and six times on the mild reefer, but eight out of nine guessed "mild" when they were really getting a puff with a big clout...
...familiar slogan, "All the News That's Fit to Print"; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Sulzberger tempered his indomitable dignity with wry good humor. In order to succeed, he once said, "you work very hard, you never watch the clock, you polish up the handle on the big front door. And you marry the boss's daughter." Sulzberger did just that. In 1917 the young Columbia graduate married Iphigene Ochs, the only child of Times Publisher Adolph Ochs, who had wanted his daughter to marry a newspaperman to perpetuate the dynasty. Sulzberger had no journalistic experience...
...brush in which painting, there is good reason. Every important master in those times-including Jordaens-kept an atelier that employed dozens of apprentices to help execute the large decorative panels that were the order of the day. Even major painters often helped each other on big commissions. Van Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, the Prado, and Rumania's Brukenthal Museum. Even Leningrad...