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...first hand. In St. Luke's Hospital for a checkup, she was the pleased recipient of a surprise getwellogram. "When I learned you were in the hospital, I thought about the many long hours you spent in being hospitable to me and mine in 1960," wrote L.B.J. in horizon-to-horizon Texas style. "I realize I was one of those who probably contributed to asking you to do too much. Lady Bird joins me in praying that you will be out of the hospital and well very quickly. We want you to know we love you very much...
...forming a photoelectric picture of about 1,000,000 square miles of earth. Instead of fading almost instantly like an ordinary TV picture, the shot lasts for 200 seconds while a scanning device "reads" it slowly, then transmits it promptly by radio. When the new Tiros comes over the horizon, a ground station operator tracks it with a spiral antenna. Down from the satellite comes a picture of the cloud pattern it has just passed over...
...dreadfully sober, bull in the kitchen and all. The funny people stand around with glasses in their hands, and the funny events occur, but the reader never feels the giddiness that good farce and a certain kind of intoxication can produce: the sensation of having temporarily mislaid the horizon and of knowing you can locate it again with no trouble if only that calf will stop licking your face...
Pomegranate Jam. What Sunset's got is an idealized picture of the West in which the ugly smell of smog is displaced by the fragrance of burning charcoal, and the passionflower vine blots out the sight of the freeway traffic jam. Sunset's horizon is limited to its subject matter, and its subject matter is limited to four categories: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Food and Western Travel...
What did matter was Ike's speech, in which he made it clear that he would wholeheartedly support Goldwater if Barry were to get the 1964 Republican nomination. "I know of no Republican presidential candidate on the horizon whom I could not support at present," he said. "No matter whom the convention nominates, that man can be sure of my fervent support." He did, however, utter an implicit warning against Goldwater's becoming too closely associated with the wayway right. Said Eisenhower: "I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist...