Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of some 750 invitations are being mailed this week. Bearing the Presidential Seal, they begin: "The President and Mrs. Johnson request the honor of your presence . . ." Companion cards read: "A reception will be held at the White House following the ceremony." In the tizzy of planning the first wedding of a President's daughter since Eleanor Wilson's in 1914, the biggest problem-whom to invite?-kept Luci and her mother mulling endlessly over Christmas-card lists and guest rosters from earlier parties. The ceremony will take place in Washington's huge Roman Catholic Shrine...
...arrived 40 lbs. lighter-down from 200 lbs.-and with 13 gal. of water still in the hold. To the adventurer, the climax was the saddest part of the voyage. "Only twelve miles to go," he tells Tinkerbelle, whom he regarded throughout as "my dearest companion," and then he adds: "The thought brought on a faint stabbing of pain...
...Falstaff's page, especially when he vainly tries to conceal his master behind his tiny slip of a body. Paul Sparer brings a comically expressive face and drawn-out speech ("Jee-ee-su [long pause], dead!") to the senile Justice Shallow, but Patrick Hines overdoes his trembling and doddering companion Justice Silence...
Preposterous? Jack Javits for President? Or Vice President? A slum-born Jew from the Lower East Side of New York? A luncheon companion and confidant of the G.O.P.'s Eastern "kingmakers" and Wall Street internationalists? A mugwump who backed F.D.R. in 1940 and bucked Barry Goldwater in 1964? An urban apostate who out-Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson...
...programmer, Press Agent Pat Curtis. It was business at first sight. Two weeks after their first encounter, they met to plan her career in minute detail. Now, they share and share alike as equal partners in a company in which Raquel is the chief asset-an asset that Constant Companion Curtis shrewdly manages by camping much of the time at Raquel's 13-room Roman villa...