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Johnsonism means effective action to get a major bill passed (civil rights) or a major annoyance done away with (such as Congressional efforts toward curbing the Supreme Court's redistricting decision). Johnsonism scorns the adage that a statesman is known by the enemies he has made, and believes that...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. A stylish French spoof of Hollywood epics assigns most of the derring-do to Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does it to a turn.
Haunting Melody. It started back in April, while the buds were still hard on the maple trees and the New York Yankees were losing four of their first five games-the first faint notes of a haunting melody. It grew steadily in volume through the summer, while the Orioles and...
The story is narrated, Uncle Remus style, 75 years" later when Harlem is an old and established nation like Nigeria and Ghana. The narrator was a Harlem militiaman in the days of derring-do, but now he is full of "Well, honey's" and "byembys." The children at his...
Beards & Banns. To keep morale flying high in that way of life, Pan Am operates its "airline within an airline" with reckoned informality and a tolerant disregard for some rules that bind most other air crews. The 166 flight crewmen, some of whom have flown the Berlin run for more...