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...moved into the White House, half a mile away. He found in Davis a clergyman who was not shy about expressing admiration for the President. In an open letter to the President, Davis declared that "I sensed God there" in Johnson's patient, painful recovery from his gall bladder operation. In the same letter, he also told the President: "You broke the back of religious bigotry in the United States." Returning the compliments, Johnson has occasionally invited Davis to lunch after church...
Sylvia Townsend Warner's genteel and wonderfully Victorian prose has always seemed at first sampling to be as innocuous as dandelion wine. Only after the unwary reader is under its influence does he discover that it is laced with gall and witchy nightshade, not to mention a dollop or two of venom...
...Gall Gillam '65-4, president of PBH, and Gordon A. Donaldson Jr. '67, chairman of the Roosevelt Towers tutorial program, were invited by the Office of Economic Opportunity to discuss possible co-operation between student tutorial programs and Community Action Agencies throughout the country...
...evening climaxed the President's first full week of work in Washington since his Oct. 8 gall-bladder operation. Belying the frequent criticism that he has little skill or patience for subtle foreign-policy negotiations, Johnson dealt firmly but diplomatically with three heads of state...
Thus, gas propels Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...