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About a month ago, Lyndon Johnson went through an awfully hectic week, dashing about for more public appointments, ceremonies, speeches and meetings than reporters could remember in months. They were at a loss to account for it all until last week, when it came out that Writer Jim Bishop, 58, had chosen that period to poke around the White House gathering material for another of his Day books-this one A Day in the Life of President Johnson. The President put in a beautiful day. "He's a heckuva man," marveled Bishop. And, more to the point, "a heckuva...
Ronald Alford, 24, was having a hectic day. Illness and vacation had left him the only reporter in the Memphis bureau of the Associated Press. That morning he had been trudging a dusty road south of the city covering James Meredith's march into Mississippi, but at 1:30 he had returned to the unmanned office. Now the news was coming through that Meredith had been shot, and Alford was in a bind...
...Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full of rich detail. Miguel encounters and narrowly escapes a rattlesnake, goes with his brother on a hunt for a predatory bobcat, adopts a newborn orphan during the hectic lambing season of spring, rescues a flock of strays from a snarling wolf pack. Perhaps the most rewarding adventure of all is the boy's first day of real work when the shearers come, his triumph when he is invited to leave the waiting women and children and join...
...Hubert Humphrey eased deliberately through the chill twilight so as not to reach the White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
...Arthur Zich, who had witnessed combat for more than a week with the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division, was relieved by Karsten Prager, who flew in from Hong Kong. Also on hand were TIME'S Pentagon correspondent. John Mulliken, and Stringer Zalin Grant. In the midst of the hectic week, McCulloch learned that his seven-year-old son David had undergone a successful emergency appendectomy in Hong Kong. "The jolt," said McCulloch later, "was at least partially absorbed by fatigue and activity...