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...Accepted the credentials of new Ethiopian Ambassador Teshome Haile Marriam, later cruised down the Potomac with Marriam and 34 other ambassadors. An uninvited guest was New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who hustled aboard at the last minute thinking that he was joining another party. Said Lyndon: "You're my favorite stowaway...
Yachts, yachts, yachts. New York's Senator Jacob Javits, 61, scampered up the gangway of what he thought was the Honey Fitz outward bound for U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's floating dinner party for the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Isn't that just like Lyndon?" thought Javits. "If there is a party somewhere in town, he'll be there." For his part, L.B.J. must have pondered whether it was just like Jack Javits to be crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft...
...operation less than a year, designed to meet a gigantic problem−that of reducing poverty in the United States. To expect that there would not be problems in administration would be unreasonable." Dominick's amendment failed, 51 to 40. An amendment by New York's Republican Jacob Javits would have provided for public hearings on any disputed veto; it lost...
Other works on the program include Omnes Gentes by Jacob Handl; Psalm 84, by Heinrich Schutz; and two motets, Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, by J.C. Bach, and Warum ist Das Licht Gegeben, by Brahms. The small chamber chorus will offer four settings of the Ave Maria by Joaquin des Pres, Schutz, Verdi, and Stravinsky, in addition to the Trois Chansons by Debuzsy...
Each with its own formal geometry, patterns proliferated with a folkloric poetry all their own: Triple Irish Chain, Windmill, Wild-Goose Chase, Princess Feather, the Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate...