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With Venetian Way a 6-1 choice, Owner Isaac Blumberg, 72, a retired Illinois machine-tool manufacturer, nursed a double bourbon and pessimistically recalled 1958 when his Lincoln Road finished second to Tim Tam in both the Derby and the Preakness. Down in the paddock, Trainer Vic Sovinski gave Hartack instructions: "You ought to be third or fourth going into the clubhouse turn, but lay back until the backstretch. Then go when you see your spot...
...highly partisan Democratic State Central Committee breakfast in Cheyenne, Johnson rejected the support of party extremists, either of the Southern Bourbon right, or the Eastern A.D.A. left: "I would not want the support of extremists, and I would not be comfortable with it." Flying on to Salt Lake City, he addressed a $100-a-plate luncheon of 38 local businessmen (half of them Republicans). "If political victory requires that the Negro always be reminded that he is a Negro, the Catholic that he is a Catholic, the Jew that he is a Jew, the Mormon that he is a Mormon...
Impeccably Liberal. Along with his regional coloration is the legend, well cultivated by Northern liberals, that Johnson's Southern blood is laced with Bourbon conservatism. The legend is untrue and unfair, as a scrutiny of his voting record reveals. Johnson stands ideologically to the right of Kennedy, Symington and Hubert Humphrey-but it is the merest shade to the right. He has always upheld his oil-rich constituents, voting to give the tidelands to the states and steadfastly opposing any attempts to cut oil and natural gas depletion allowances-but no Texas politician in his right mind would...
...good. Why don't you jump out the window, Peter?" Trembling, Peter rummages through the wastebasket, runs his tongue feverishly into the necks of the three empty bottles he finds there. Then he sees it on the floor-a quart bottle three-quarters full of bourbon. But a gleaming white boa constrictor is coiled around it, nicking its forked tongue...
...continued to snub the old political hands and to make a big to-do about his cabinet full of novices in their 30s. Old politicos also resented his Eastern-style narrow-brim hat, his frequent out-of-state junkets, his preference for Scotch and soda over bourbon and branch water, his preference for Oklahoma City's Golf and Country Club and plush Tower Club over such spots of legislative camaraderie as the Capri Motel...