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TIME's chief Lady Bird watcher is one of the ten women correspondents on our staff, Jean Franklin. A 1947 graduate of Bucknell and former editorial researcher, Reporter Franklin specializes in the Washington bureau's contribution to our back-of-the-book sections-such as EDUCATION, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, ART, Music-and in covering the wife of the President...
...playing cat-and-mouse with the vice-presidential nomination, but most of all he was riding along on a streetcar named euphoria. Trooping in and out of his presence have come literally scores of visitors, mostly newsmen and politicians. There were evening meetings with 50 or so Washington bureau chiefs of the major newspapers, magazines and wire services, visiting publishers, Governors, mayors and maybe even dogcatchers. Most of them reported the same thing: Lyndon lounging in a quiet study or in the Oval Room, drinking huge tumblers of a low-calorie orange drink, offering his guests heaping dishes of hors...
...fair's biggest headaches, however, is that, unlike the 1962 Seattle Fair, New York's was never sanctioned by the International Bureau of Expositions, which limits any member nation to one fair a decade. Thus big drawing cards such as Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Brazil and Russia are not represented...
...National Bureau of Economic Research every week receives a mass of suggestions from citizens about how to predict the course of the economy: by aspirin sales, race-track betting, blue print production, employment of temporary office help. Some of the suggestions actually make sense, but they are like so many popguns in the economic forecaster's arsenal. The nation's economists, for roughly the same reason as the U.S. Air Force, have developed their own DEW-line warning system to spot trouble on the horizon...
...would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal. For the present, no serious inflationary spiral is in sight. Last week President Johnson expressed his opposition in strong terms to any broad steel price increase...