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...William McKinley Lyndon Johnson keeps his ear as close to the ground as any President in history, but what mostly seems to get in his ears these days are bothersome creatures called psephologists. When his 70%-approval ratings were a dime a dozen, the President's inside coat pocket always bulged with polls, ready to be yanked out and proudly displayed at a moment's notice. Since his popularity went into a decline, he has tended to keep those polls out of view, if not quite out of mind. Last week he had a rare choice: the pollsters...
...Irish truck driver's son who bubbled up through the Labor Party's ranks to the No. 2 spot like the suds on a pint of warm stout, Brown has been defying the staid frock-coat-and-homburg image of a diplomat ever since he arrived at Whitehall four months ago for his first day of work. While senior foreign officers ceremoniously gathered out front to greet the new man, Brown slipped in the back door and went to work. In what the Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about...
...left it under his seat as he left the studio, and he was halfway out the door before he realized that he'd forgotten it. He turned vaguely to one of his aides, and then realizing where it was, stepped briskly back through the door to retrieve the coat himself. Leaving for Quincy House, he walked, crisp and business-like to a waiting car, his sleekly combed hair unruffled by the sharp wind overhead...
Fink's latest experiment is steel-gray Harvard Bridge, which is now receiving a preliminary coat of red-orange. "I'd like to paint it crimson," he said, "but M.I.T. might consider that adding insult to injury. They have never liked the idea of a bridge named after Harvard running right past their doorstep...
...blueblooded hunting associations like the Quorn, which was organized 250 years ago, still flourish. But the 200 hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing the pace "grueling...