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Something Added. Mixing concrete for foundations, driving nails, painting, digging sewage trenches, boys and girls work side by side-and scrupulously respect the project's list of dos ("girls are always escorted") and don'ts ("no excessive displays of affection") designed to ensure that they do not "contribute to the portrait of the 'Ugly American.'" The students pay their own expenses, prepare their own meals, even kick in a minimum of $10 each to help buy precious building materials...
...staying awake, the physician recommended coffee or tea, neither of which causes an alteration of judgment. He said that "No-Dos" works the same way, but is no more effective than coffee...
...mixes her guest lists with a style that would make Karnak's eyes pop. At a rooftop dance for Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich, for example, guests included Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Jimmy Durante, Composer Richard Rodgers, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and Author John Dos Passes-while Lady Bird's daughter Luci danced the frug to the music of Lester Lanin's orchestra...
Jimmy Durante was there. So was Evangelist Billy Graham, Author John Dos Passes, Banker David Rockefeller, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and onetime Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Luci Baines Johnson, two days before her 17th birthday, had 25 of her teen-age friends...
...felt crusher. In seven months in the White House they have put on at least 25 major wingdings, including eight state dinners-each with a minimum of preening, a maximum of fun and easy conviviality. After all, who else in the world could comfortably mix Jimmy Durante, John Dos Passes and David Rockefeller with a teen-age twist party...