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...Inevitable Delay." Then there was the question of when to depart. Johnson wanted to be sworn in officially before takeoff. Kennedy aides wanted to leave Love Field as soon as the coffin and Mrs. Kennedy arrived. Manchester, relying on interviews conducted later, reports a tense scene between Johnson and Kenneth O'Donnell, J.F.K.'s appointments secretary, in which O'Donnell "over and over" insisted: "We've got to go, we've got to get out of here, we can't wait." But Roberts says he could detect no "atmosphere of crackling tension." Further...
...open a store called Paperworks in Manhattan, thinks home furnishings are the likeliest area, plans to offer paper curtains, drapes and sheets. Sterling Paper believes in paper resort wear, the idea being that vacationers could buy paper clothes at the hotel when they arrive, throw them away when they depart, thus eliminating packing and carrying heavy luggage. It is also testing a man's $12 suit...
...decision to depart, then, digs deep into the nature of the man himself. Stepping down from the prestigious post of Dean of Harvard College to become Director of Freshman Studies at an unaccredited Negro College in Alabama contradicts the careful calculations of ordinary minds: the new job assures neither comfort, nor power. Monro will have traded Cambridge, where people often feel they are at the center of the world, for Birmingham, where many people feel out of the way and like...
...modern dance, it will not clear enough from its Manhattan performances to cover expenses. The lukewarm support for modern dance at home makes it impossible for it to afford anything but the scantiest scenery; the dancers even make their own costumes. To make ends meet, Taylor & Co. will depart this month on their twelfth tour abroad, where they draw six times as many people a year as they...
...Jack Valenti, Reedy, Horace Busby, Eric Goldman), as well as men who served both Kennedy and Johnson (McGeorge Bundy, Ralph Dungan, Kenny O'Donnell, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin, Dave Powers, Pierre Salinger, Jerome Wiesner, Ted Sorensen). Jake Jacobsen, another of Johnson's inner-circle aides, will also depart early next year. Moyers' replacement will be George Christian, 39, a former Texas sportswriter (the Temple Telegram and International News Service) who was Governor John Connally's press secretary before going to the White House as an administrative assistant in May of this year. Although Christian is known...