Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed change in the Senate's cloture rule, and Johnson sided with Russell, who was both pleased and impressed. A few days later Russell tipped off Texas reporters that Johnson was about to make a Senate speech that would be worth a story. From that beginning came a close friendship...
...Forget." But the Senate balance is much too close and much too flexible for Lyndon Johnson to get anywhere just by confining his attentions to Democrats. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas once told him: "No leader is worth his salt unless he has friends on both sides of the aisle." Lyndon Johnson...
...apparently intends to keep up the boycott until Herbert Kohler gives in or the company goes out of business. Compromise hardly seems possible any more. "It is almost sinful," says a U.A.W. official, "to have any labor dispute degenerate to the point this one has." Which was about as close as any interested party had come to the heart...
Faith and food are close company in the Old Testament and the New-from that first bite in Eden, through the Passover meal and the manna from Heaven, to the feeding of the multitudes and the Last Supper. The resurrected Christ was specifically recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany...
...restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect Philip Johnson kicked off in 1932 the boom for the International Style of wrap-around ribbon windows, flat roofs and stripped façades, came close to disowning his own offspring: "Not the least value of studying Gaudi's work is the exhilaration that comes from realizing how vast, how unplumbed, are the possibilities of architecture in our time. The dead hand of academicism in the 1950s seems to be closing...