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...Much Guff. Johnson, who had spent the previous two days doing his best to explain why in hard-hitting speeches at eight U.S. military bases around the nation, managed to appear unruffled. Leaving the church, Lady Bird chirped a noncommittal "Wonderful choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait...
...talent, he explains, is his ability to spot talent. More precisely, as the single most influential starmaker in TV, he shrewdly uses his power to gather, pay for, juggle, condense, cut or otherwise shape the talent to the needs of his show. He takes no guff from stars, advertisers or agents. When Beatles Manager Brian Epstein told him, "I would like to know the exact wording of your introduction," Sullivan coolly replied, "I would like you to get lost." The one influence that guides his taste is "public opinion, which is the voice...
...usual in Disney's economy epics, the plaster castles are impeccably constructed and the faces of the principals (Peter McEnery and Susan Hampshire) are so nice that they make a theater feel like church. Anybody who sees any redeeming historical merit in this agreeable guff would believe that the River Shannon flows down the middle of Sunset Boulevard...
...Guff. The upheavals in San Francisco and St. Louis were both kindled by the same spark: the shooting of a Negro by white police. In St. Louis, youthful Negroes on the western edges of the downtown district demonstrated for six nights after an armed-robbery suspect was shot to death, breaking the windows of autos and buildings, pitching stones and bottles at policemen, stoning firemen who replied to false alarms-and all the while shouting "Black power...
Shelley telephoned Governor Edmund Brown, campaigning in San Diego, to ask for 2,000 National Guardsmen. Patrolling both the Hunter's Point and Fillmore ghettos with fixed bayonets and orders to "shoot to kill-take no guff from anyone," the Guard ended the melee in two nights. All told, 51 people were injured, 267 arrested...