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...COONSKIN...
...from small facets of their conviction and experience. "I'm not going to be the first President to lose a war . . . Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Viet Nam . . . Come home with the coonskin on the wall." That was our President as he moved us deeper and deeper into Viet Nam. Lyndon Johnson, out of Texas legend, could not conceive of courage and wisdom as anything but a victory of force...
...antitrust suit in history. It called for the breaking up of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's largest business enterprise in assets ($67 billion), employees (1,005,000),. shareholders (2,930,000) and profits ($2.99 billion last year). Evidently, it is also to be the big coonskin in what President Ford claimed recently would be a major campaign to "zero in on more effective enforcement" of the antitrust laws. Long before the surprise suit is resolved, it is likely to raise serious doubts about just what is the pur pose and direction of the Ford antitrust policy...
...world will have to wait a bit for the first cartoon Kafka. Right now Bakshi is finishing "a homage to the black man" in the form of a collection of Uncle Remus-style tales called Coonskin. As in all animation work, progress is slow because each movement, no matter how imperceptible in the finished product, requires a separate drawing. "We turn out twelve feet of film a week here," says Bakshi, who disdains the larger animation outfits in town that finish a hundred or more feet a week by using fewer drawings per foot and settling for less lively results...
Lyndon Johnson is remembered, too, for his strange, dogged passion: for the time he flew to Viet Nam and told U.S. forces to "come home with that coonskin on the wall"; for the time he roared round the world in less than five days in 1967 and wound up dropping in on the Pope to see if anything could be done about freeing U.S. war prisoners; and for the many times he would stop to talk farming with an Appalachian family or drop in on the old folks in the new nursing home down in Johnson City. "Didn...