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Plunging into the olive-drab crowd, the President heard an Army corporal say "Thank you for coming." "Thank you," he replied, "for being here." He reached for outthrust hands. "How about one for Texas?" shouted one soldier. The President gave him a hearty handshake and a big grin. In the air-conditioned Quonsets of the base hospital, the President gave out two dozen Purple Hearts, signed "L.B.J." on casts and fatigue caps, shook hands with nurses in baggy fatigues...
...acting is completely gimmicky, but with fast and clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
...people all of the time. At a recent White House session with 30 Democratic freshman Congressmen all edgy about the November elections, Johnson promised to do whatever he could to assist them: campaign in their home districts, stay away-or even, he suggested with a grin, campaign against them, if that would help...
...least 30 bullets. As an additional defense, both men had carried bags of pepper "to throw in their eyes in case they stopped us." Far more fortifying were other advance preparations, which may have explained some of the waltzing at the border. Said one of the men with a grin: "We had to drink a lot of schnapps to give us courage...