Word: johnson
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Additions to the Coop's shelves will include works of Stuart Chase, Wendell Johnson, Hayakawa and Korzybski, chosen from a suggested list in "ETC.", a general semantics quarterly...
Democrats outside of Congress joined in the attack. Left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action charged that the Democratic leadership in Congress "surrendered before a shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...Governors have been rated more as pawns than potential kingmakers. This campaign, said the pundits, belonged either to twice-defeated Adlai Stevenson or to one of four U.S. Senators: Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson. But as candidates and their hardheaded professionals get down to counting delegates, they will find the Governors in command of most delegations fully aware of their separate and collective bargaining power and-in some cases -firm believers that a Governor belongs somewhere on the ticket...
...dollarwise, Western type who got most of his program t including model plans for aid to the aged, mental health and state highways) through the Democratic legislature. Although on the Democratic Advisory Council, he plumps mostly for such Western causes as reclamation projects, has much regard for Texan Lyndon Johnson's ideas. One of the West's able Catholics, he has upped his vice-presidential lightning rod, demands party attention to his region. Says he: "We have votes as well as political savvy...
Britain's Commie-loving Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 85, better known as the Red Dean of Canterbury, who has swallowed all sorts of pink pap in his time, disclosed that he is now taking it subcutaneously. Hewlett's wife Nowell Mary, 53, has been injecting him with Substance H3, a "youth serum" containing novocain and unspecified acids, developed by the dean's good friend, Dr. Anna ("Age is an illness; age is curable") Asian, at her rejuvenation clinic in Bucharest. He is now running on a three-month supply of the stuff that he brought from Rumania...