Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NDEA last spring, says he is "hopeful about the Senate, but doubtful about the House." In his capacity as president of the Association of Graduate Schools, Elder has sent telegrams discussing the NDEA affidavit to Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and to Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and Lister Hill, and Representative Carl Elliott...
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...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (unaffiliated) sidestepped the debate with a curt "no comment." Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Disciples of Christ) said nothing. California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation of birth is something that I am not prepared to answer. I certainly don't believe this country has the right to impose upon any country any particular ideas it may have, nor [to] interfere with the religious practices of other countries...
...difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted to be the roller-skating champion of the world, and those damned singing lessons interfered with my practice...
Three experienced competitors--Doug McCartney, Bill Schellstede, and Jim Perilman--will handle the breast stroke, while Jim Coffman will help Elizalde in the fly. Besides Gorman, the dive lists Ric Johnson, the Crimson's only winner against Yale last season, and Gerry Cleason...