Word: cannonism
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...Soprano Leontyne Price sang America, the Beautiful. Humphrey, visibly nervous, was sworn in by House Speaker John McCormack, who now, after 14 months, was relieved of his interim role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before Chief Justice Earl Warren. Across the Potomac, cannon boomed a 21-gun salute. Lady Bird, gazing steadily into Lyndon's eyes, stood between the two men, holding the Johnson family Bible. After repeating the first phrase of his oath, Lyndon realized that he had forgotten to put one hand on the Bible and raise the other; he corrected...
Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...
...upcoming legislation. Most important was the move to establish control over two major points of conservative power in the House-the Ways and Means and the Appropriations committees, long dominated by a coalition of conservative-minded Democrats and Republicans. When it was chaired by Missouri's late Clarence Cannon, one of the crustiest old tightwads in House history, Appropriations often choked off extra funds for almost anything that smacked of liberal legislation. Cannon died last spring, and the chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura...
...powers to release any bill bogged down in the Rules Committee for more than 21 days. Opponents of the move complained that it meant a return to the bad old days when the Speaker was a near autocrat, but the speakership is still a long way from Uncle Joe Cannon and Tom Reed, who liked to announce his arbitrary decisions by declaring: "Gentlemen, we have decided to perpetrate the following outrage...
...Saigon. Near Soctrang, 90 miles south of the capital, a regional patrol stumbled on a regimental headquarters of 1,500 Viet Cong, who were dug into a field and camouflaged. Rangers, backed by air support that sowed the field with some 288,000 bullets, 4,000 20-mm. cannon shells, 1,552 rockets and 37,000 Ibs. of bombs, scattered the Red nest. At least 87 Viet Cong were killed and a record haul of Red weapons captured...