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Johnson has traveled widely, but the image he always projected was of a hearty backslapper who stopped to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor in Beirut, who invited a Pakistani camel driver to "come and see us, heah?" and who gave out ballpoint pens wherever he went. "He shakes hands with everybody," said a Thai clerk after Johnson stormed Bangkok, "no matter if they are dirty or what." Johnson knows scores of foreign leaders, but their meetings rarely went much beyond the handshaking technique that he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them...
...looking for - "Acclaimed The World's Greatest Tenor" - but to his in finite horror, there, smiling out above the blurb, was Archrival Franco Corelli. Di Stefano reacted with the cool dignity for which he is famous throughout op era. "I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel's-hair coat and heading for the door...
...forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
...Lady Bird"* Johnson, 50, is one of the busiest women in the nation's busy capital. She rolls bandages for the Red Cross and pours milk for underprivileged children. She runs her own million-dollar businesses. She entertains everyone from American astronauts to illiterate Pakistani camel drivers-with heaping portions of hominy and homey Texas charm. The Washington newspapers love her: hardly a day goes by without her picture on the society pages. But to most of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson is still just a funny name...
...Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...