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Besides the workers who will be staying on, the Nixons may inherit another White House regular. Blanco, the President's sometimes shy and nervous white collie, has finally grown accustomed to the grounds, and L.B.J. is hesitant to transplant him to the nontransitional environment of Texas...
...offerings outside the canon have been plays about religion. At any rate, Shaw was always fascinated by the religious mentality; and, although he often touched on religion elsewhere, he examined it in detail on the stage three times in his career. The first result was The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1909), a religious tract in the form of a romantic melodrama laid in our own Wild West. The third was Saint Joan (1923), not only Shaw's greatest play but also one of the consummate creative achievements of the twentieth century...
...Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco...
...large, high-ceiling conference hall of Caracas' Palacio Blanco was crowded last week with newsmen and television crews. The government had hurriedly called a very unusual press conference. On display were two members of Fidel Castro's Cuban army: Manuel Gil Castellanos, 25, and Pedro Cabrera Torres, 29. Blinking in the glare of klieg lights, the Cubans were escorted into the room, one after the other, were briefly questioned by government information officers, and were then led away to a military prison...
...real name, often refers to him as "Charley." Visiting the L.B.J. ranch, Hamilton, 27, seemed to settle comfortably into a new role as member-of-the-family. Although he is a Christian Scientist, he joined the Johnsons for Sunday-morning services at the tiny Episcopal church in Blanco, dutifully held the hymnal as wide-eyed Lynda did her best to concentrate on the services. Afterward, while the President stood to one side, George, decked out in a Continental suit and buckled shoes, autographed church bulletins for tittering girls, later picnicked and water-skied with the family. At Randolph Field, getting...