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...crucial factor in the year-end attitude toward 1964 is the confidence that businessmen seem to have in the new man in the White House. So far, President Johnson has won a reception from businessmen that is cordial beyond anything lately experienced by a Democratic President. In homey speeches to them at White House meetings and in personal phone calls to such executives as A. T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel and New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston, Johnson has appeared a friendly, conservative Chief Executive who understands business. It is not unusual to hear from businessmen comments such...
...busiest women in the nation's busy capital. She rolls bandages for the Red Cross and pours milk for underprivileged children. She runs her own million-dollar businesses. She entertains everyone from American astronauts to illiterate Pakistani camel drivers-with heaping portions of hominy and homey Texas charm. The Washington newspapers love her: hardly a day goes by without her picture on the society pages. But to most of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson is still just a funny name...
Singer Jimmy Dean (The Jimmy Dean Show on ABC) yuks and yatters and carries on with homey talk and Bible songs while the beady eyes within his Hereford face rove the studio, missing nothing. Dean, whose recording of Big, Bad John once sent all teenagers, is really the darling of their mothers, who want to call him in off the street and give him a slice of warm pie with melting vanilla ice cream on it. Incredible as it may seem to ABC's metropolitan viewers, he may be around for a long time...
...decision, though, to market The Wine Is Bitter as a "footnote to history" rather than a frank memoir was unfortunate. In this light, the author's homey quotations at the opening of the arbitrary chapters ("Compromise is less a sacrifice of principle than an admission of fallibility") seem absurd; and the important documentary of Dr. Eisenhower's personal involvement in the Tractors for Freedom Committee disappears as another inessential anecdore. To call the work political science is to misrepresent it. It is more accurately the saga of an American diplomat whose yankee charm shows clearly through his narrative's numberless...
Rapid-American's boss is still a crafty operator who dazzles potential investors with complicated "chalk talks" in which he sketches his financial plans on a blackboard. He often puts off opponents during negotiations by conferring with his associates in Hebrew, likes to voice homey parables. He lives with his wife and three children in a lavish home on Long Island, where his special joys are a pump-powered waterfall and a library that contains more electronic gear than books. Despite the Lerner setback, Riklis last week hoped to raise some money by contracting to sell...