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...concluded Chairman Miller: "When the eyes of Texas were upon him, Lyndon Johnson's position on many issues was vastly different from that which he took when basking in the gaze of New York or California. In 1964 the eyes of all 50 states will be upon President Johnson. He will find it infinitely more difficult to run as both a liberal and a conservative...
...Boles afterward, "He took it with characteristic courage." The night of the assassination, Caroline and John Jr. were told that their father was dead. A Cedar Felled. In the U.S. Senate, Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris mounted the rostrum and placed a single sheet of scrawled notes before him. "We gaze at a vacant place against the sky," he said, "as the President of the Republic goes down like a giant cedar." Then he recalled the words that Ohio Representative James A. Garfield spoke on the morning that Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. "Fellow citizens," said Garfield...
Maria Schell, by herself, is enough to carry the film. As the demure Jeanne, her wedding night smile fades artfully into the wistful gaze of the betrayed wife. The male lead is not as successful. Christian Marquand has all the rugged facial angles that a hunter and sure-fire seducer ought to have. Only once, however, when Julien grins at the thought the angles. Long before the end of the picture, his fierce teeth-clenching turns into tame stolidness and a suspicion of lockjaw...
...municipal elections to cast their ballots for a list of government-approved candidates. Voter No. 41 in Section 9, Quarter 5 of Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot. He handed it to the board president, who solemnly announced...
...lovingly establishes his own name with the prof. After that, says a Princeton honors student, one need only "sit in the first two rows of the lecture room and maintain continuous eye contact with the lecturer. Make him glad he's looking at you. Give him that receptive gaze, which implies amazement at his genius and quiet excitement at the information being transmitted...