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Tots Teeth. At week's end, arriving exuberantly in Texas for the Easter holiday, Johnson announced new plans to expand the Great Society. At a bill-signing ceremony to celebrate a two-month extension of the medicare registration deadline-held characteristically at a federally financed home for the aged in San Antonio-Johnson said he would ask Congress next year for "increased insurance benefits, across the board, for 21 million beneficiaries" of social security, plus free dental services under medicare for children...
After some politicking, the Johnsons then accompanied Daughter Luci and Fiancé Pat Nugent at a Good Friday service in San Antonio's Roman Catholic San Fernando Cathedral, later flew to the L.B.J. Ranch for a long Easter weekend. There they were joined by Daughter Lynda, looking as radiant as her father and sporting a jeweled gold ring on the third finger of her left hand. A gift from her current beau, Actor George Hamilton, who had also joined the family for the weekend, the ring, White House aides averred, stood for "friendship," not connubial intent...
...comparison with its heroically productive first session, the performance of the 89th Congress this year seems lackluster. Nonetheless, as Congressmen headed home last week for the Easter recess, they could reasonably claim that they had accomplished virtually all that they had set out to do. The session has set a "good normal record," as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield assesses it. "It hasn't been sensational, like last year, but it has been solid...
...Catholics last week twice picketed the cardinal's residence and the near by seminary, and organized a four-day Easter prayer vigil on behalf of the seminarians' demands. "The cardinal has a bull by the tail now," said the mother of one seminarian, "and he doesn't know what...
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums. The solemn hoopla attending this tribute to the late President reached its climax with an Easter Sunday opening in Manhattan, a bit of corny religiosity that would certainly have brought a derisive snort from Jack Kennedy. Made in 1964 by the United States Information Agency for showing abroad, the film became available for U.S. audiences by express congressional approval after enthusiastic press previewers launched a crusade extolling its virtues in terms usually reserved for such timeless Americana as the Gettysburg Address. Though Years of Lightning can now be seen...