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...Bird Johnson, in St. Petersburg to give diplomas to the eleven men and eight women of VISTA'S graduating class, explained the idea behind the organization. Said she: "America is many things. But above all, more than any nation in the history of man, ever since the first frontiersman picked up his musket to help protect a neighbor, we have been a nation of volunteers. We have been a land in which the individual says, 'My neighbor needs me. I will do something.' " After the ceremony, Lady Bird toured the nearby Negro communities of Ridgecrest...
...beautiful hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a soldier and fools everyone but perspicacious Sam, who stumbles upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies who never learn -they always pick fights with Elaine and end up flat on their backs...
Barely two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination, Louisiana Democrats held their gubernatorial primary. The leader, by a thumping 140,000 votes, was about the closest thing in Louisiana to a real New Frontiersman: former New Orleans Mayor de-Lesseps S. ("Chep") Morrison, a racial moderate, a Catholic, and a global-minded fellow who, as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, had been a working member of the Kennedy team...
...Power Play. She is, says one New Frontiersman, "a truly amazing woman, one of the rare hostesses who know how to combine fun with the power play." At 46, her skin has been lightly bronzed by the sun of Bar Harbor summers and Palm Beach winters. She is 5 ft. 8 in., scarcely an inch shorter than her husband. Her hair, rinsed a soft honey blonde, frames an angular face with high cheekbones. Long, curling lashes fringe blue eyes with just a touch of green in them. Her mouth is wide-too wide-but when she smiles or contorts...
...along the dangerous path of accommodation of our enemies." And again he cried out for Republicans of all stripes to unite against the Kennedy Administration. Said he: "It'd be pretty hard to find a Republican who wouldn't be better for the country than a New Frontiersman...