Word: closed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straw-hat season draws to a close, Broadway and off-Broadway shows once again become the main focus of the theater world. Among the hits still running, for those who may have missed them earlier...
...hear his friends tell it, Lyndon Johnson has turned into just another hill-country rancher. He helps lay irrigation pipe, frets about his cattle and the weather, works on his memoirs and papers, entertains a few close friends, watches an occasional movie in a converted hangar at the ranch (he invariably falls asleep). Sundays, he usually goes to one of the churches around Johnson City-Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran, it hardly seems to matter, as though he were facing God as an equal and the intermediaries were supernumerary. He is fit and tanned, relaxed and happy...
...avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
Gargan has the gregarious wit of a Boston pol. In July he became president of a bank in Hyannisport, and moved his wife Betty and two children to a house there partly in order to live close to the Kennedy compound...
...Next Test. The likelihood that speculators will soon find another way to outgain stock-market averages is not great. Last week the stock market slowly extended a technical rally from its July 29th low of 801.96 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. The average rose 16.37 to close at 837.25. Brokers almost unanimously expect that the rally will give way soon to a new drop that will "test" the low. Opinion is divided about evenly on whether or not the market will pass that test...