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Moyers later enrolled at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, also worked fulltime as its information director. He preached in rural churches, was ordained as a Baptist teacher but not a minister, intended to teach ethics at Baylor University, but changed his plans in 1959 when Johnson asked him to join his Senate staff. In a matter of months, Johnson hiked Moyers' salary from $10,000 to $15,000, made him executive assistant during his 1960 vice-presidential campaign...
Even though, since New Hampshire, Goldwater has virtually purged the word "voluntary" from his vocabulary, it has not done much good. Still the controversy rages, and the uncertainties over his true position abound. In Fort Dodge, Iowa, recently, a 500-signature petition was sent to the state's two U.S. Senators, asking that social security not be made voluntary. Like it or not, it seems that Barry is going to have a tough time convincing voters that he did not mean what he said before he was sorry he said...
Part of the hoopla last week at the General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth may have been political, and the roll out date of the TFX fighter may indeed have been advanced a bit to have an effect on the presidential campaign. But the TFX (or F-111, as it is now called) is nonetheless a phenomenal airplane...
Claiming they had suffered "embarrassment and mental agony," Robert Welch, 64, president of the John Birch Society, two aides and the society itself sued NBC in Fort Worth for $8,000,000 in damages. A May 20 broadcast by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, said the plaintiffs, falsely reported that the FBI had arrested "parties engaged in selling arms to the society." Said their lawyer: "More than likely, the broadcast went out all over the U.S., and we could have sued almost anywhere, but we wanted a more favorable climate, as distinguished from a climate that is ultraliberal...
Married. Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 22, Mamie's niece; and 2nd Lieut. Steven James Rees, 22, serving in the Army's ceremonial Old Guard Battalion at Fort Myer, Va.; at the post chapel...