Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof Hubert Humphrey, only slightly touched by the presidential purple (some people are more purple than others...
...breed, exposed to enemy fire for only an hour or two at a stretch and not every day at that, Dr. Bourne wanted to study the reactions of ground forces in constant danger and therefore under continuing stress. To do this, he and Technician William M. Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during the dark of the moon. The monsoon was beginning...
...league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman? Moving out to center field, the only player worth getting excited about is the White Sox's Tommy Agee...
Current smokes include almost anything from the supermarket spice and herb shelves plus dried hydrangea leaves, chlorine-soaked lettuce, and green peppers (aged until rotten, then used as a bulbous cigarette filter). But far and away the biggest new fad is tripping on banana peels...
Married. Nancy Quirk Williams Jr., 23, eldest daughter of former Michigan Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams; and Theodore Ketterer III, 23, salesman for IBM; in an Episcopal ceremony in Detroit. Soapy's regalia: striped trousers and cutaway morning coat, embellished with his familiar green polka...