Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more, it projects her wit to a new and unexpected height. Amid a tangle of French fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying you in order to remain à la mode...
...states in 1964 and, despite the lisp she cannot always control, learned to deliver pleasant, spontaneous little talks. During the last academic year she buckled down earnestly to her nursing studies. Pat calls her "much more mature than other girls her age." To Luci, her sober, self-possessed fiancé is "a gentle man, a kind man, a fun man." And, she vows, "he will always have the upper hand...
Regular Guy. Pat, meanwhile, has reacted stoically to the brouhaha. In his few appearances at public functions with Luci he has displayed studied sang-froid and said exactly what his position called for: virtually nothing. Luci's fiancé, an acquaintance observed, has "a chameleon personality that allows him to fit in anywhere...
Lyndon Johnson took a notion to press the flesh with the folks in Omaha and Des Moines last week. Invited along were Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party...
...standard reply-when he took her in his arms at a White House reception for wounded veterans of Viet Nam. He insisted that Courtenay had been misquoted by a reporter who wrote that she had gazed fondly over the presidential shoulder at Airman Patrick Nugent, Luci's fiancé, and declared instead: "I love Pat." Johnson gently suggested that the newsman should buy an earphone...