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...daughter Caroline's Welsh terrier Charlie. Dog-lovingest President: Lyndon B. Johnson, who allowed one of his dogs to sleep in his bed and adored a white collie named Blanco, despite the fact that he was so vicious he had to be kept tranquilized. L.B.J. was so distraught over the death of Old Beagle that he had him cremated, then kept the ashes in a box on top of the refrigerator...
...Ling and overreaching conglomerators like him have put a severe strain on the fabric of public trust in big business. The giddy ride up at LTV was a good trip for many shareholders and bankers; but when Ling fell, he left a trail of tottering companies, broken careers and distraught investors. Jimmy Ling himself has salvaged several million dollars out of a fortune that once was about $70 million. He has started another budding conglomerate, with the symbolic ending-to-beginning name of Omega-Alpha. Its stock came out a year ago at 5½ and has lately fallen...
While the amnesic lad marked time by doing odd jobs for the Salvation Army and playing honky-tonk piano, distraught mothers of runaways called Key West by the hundreds, claiming him as their own. Finally the real parents showed up, identifying the boy as Kim Basil Kadas, 16, of East Chicago, Ind. Kim recognized his mother and departed for home with his parents, leaving those anguished mothers to go on searching countless police stations and claiming sandy-haired, blue-eyed teenage boys as their lost sons...
These realizations have had their effect on Bok. There have been moments when his demeanor has reflected his frustration: 15 hours into the PALC occupation of Mass Hall, he paced impatiently on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center, perceptibly worn and distraught...
...still a boy." Hunched over a glass of Andeker beer in a dim South Side tavern last week, he grieved: "Oh, if only Artie'd shot me instead. I never pray, but last night I prayed and I prayed very hard." Bremer, a distraught, broken man who wore his silver-white hair in a ponytail until his wife cut it the day after the shooting, told TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Burton Pines that he also did something else he had not done in years. "I cried when this happened. I shouldn't say it, but I cried...