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...their Copa runneth over. The Supremes were nationwide headliners last week on the Ed Sullivan TV show and this week will be on the Sammy Davis Jr. show. Their latest record, My World Is Empty Without You, rose to No. 5 on the Billboard "Hot 100," with plenty of thrust in reserve. If it keeps climbing, it could become the Supremes' seventh release in a row to make No. 1. "You know," burbled Diana, now 21, "we used to get excited about the Apollo [a Harlem vaudeville house]. We never even thought about the Copa. The first night...
Mindful of Lyndon's pride in signing bills in the most appropriate possible place, Iowa's H. R. Gross suggested sourly that the President might hold the beautification-bill ceremony on Route 290 outside Austin, in the shade of a billboard advertising the Johnsons' TV and radio station. (The gibe was late; KTBC had removed the blurb last month.) Protested Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld, who supported the bill: "The Democrats were allowing no time to debate constructive amendments. All we could do was get up and hiccup. That's a helluva lousy way to legislate...
...consolation-to the President's wife, anyway-was the bill that emerged from the bickering. Like the. version already passed by the Senate, it authorizes a federal-state campaign to landscape major roads, screen or remove junkyards from roadsides, and push back billboards so that people can see the scenery. It may even eliminate the ultimate uglification described earlier by Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson. On Route 99, just south of Seattle, said he, the view of distant Mount Rainier is obscured by a Rainier-beer billboard with a painted view of Mount Rainier...
...Passed, by a 63-to-14 vote in the Senate, a slightly watered down $320 million road beautification bill to provide for junkyard cleanups and billboard controls along federally financed highways. As originally reported out of the Senate Public Works Committee, the measure would have withdrawn all federal highway funds from any state that did not effectively curtail unsightly billboard advertising within 660 feet of federal-aid highways. The bill's punitive powers were cut by an amendment providing for withdrawal of only 10% of federal road money in such cases...
Lady Bird's Must. Outdoor advertising is an obvious target for beautifiers. To oppose the billboard bills that Lyndon Johnson says he "must have for Lady Bird" is like supporting crime in the streets. Yet the major offense to the eye is the neon jungie of on-premise signs of used-car lots, drive-in restaurants and souvenir stands on the out skirts of most U.S. towns. The new bills leave these untouched. Instead, they call for elimination of all billboards for 660 feet on either side of a federal highway or primary roadway outside commercial or industrial areas...