Word: bill
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...career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
What Hechler seeks is revival of the bill that President Johnson submitted to Congress last September, which died without so much as a committee hearing. If adopted, the measure would replace a toothless law enacted in 1952. It would...
High among their abilities, of course, is songwriting, and the album provides a handful of superb additions to the canon. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, called an "all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son," is a cunningly simple ditty that flashes with hints of America's burgeoning violence and shrinking mythology. Cry Baby Cry demonstrates anew the Beatles' knack for rendering an Alice-in-Wonderland vision in a melancholy modern vein. Dear Prudence superimposes Indian-style drones and swooping tones on childlike lyrics ("Won't you come out to play . . . greet the brand...
...onetime jazz saxophonist, recently gave up his job as an insurance agent to manage his son's business affairs. A precocious student (his IQ is 184), Craig started taking classical piano lessons at nine, switched to jazz at twelve after listening to the cool, cerebral playing of Bill Evans. Soon there were other models: Peterson, Peter Nero, George Shearing. "For a while," Craig admits, "I sounded like those guys, but now it's my own sound...
...recalls the days when as a gawky youngster in Rayville, La., he spent long hours in his backyard shooting a small rubber ball through a bottomless wash bucket. He was always dreaming of his idols, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, and today he talks of little but how "great, just great" it is to be playing against them...