Word: johnson
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...original Georgia Mafia, but his rise has nonetheless been remarkable. The son of an Atlanta shoe wholesaler, he was a star basketball player in high school and later studied at the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School ('67). He wrote speeches on domestic affairs for Lyndon Johnson, then became an adviser to Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 presidential race. At that time he believed in the Great Society approach to social problems: spend more money on them...
...congressional move to roll back huge increases in Social Security taxes scheduled to start next year. And the President so far has tended to view regulatory decisions in an isolated, case-by-case way, rather than weighing their inflationary impact. Further, he seems to have no stomach for Lyndon Johnson-style jawboning of labor and business. The inflationary genie may be out of the bottle...
Joining Vik in the Florida jaunt will be two-year letterman Spence Fitzgibbons, journeyman Dave "Paducah" Paxton, juniors Chris Ball and Ron Himelman, George Arnold, and highly-touted freshmen Glenn Alexander and Brett Johnson...
Alexander and Johnson, along with internationally-groomed fellow rookie Theo Melas Kyriazi should provide the linksmen with the consistency that prevented them from toying with the rest of the league last year...
Alexander was a high school All-American and two-time Michigan schoolboy champ. Johnson, who saw limited duty on the hockey squad this winter, placed second in the prestigious and talent-laden Western Junior championship at Purdue last summer. Kyriazi, who hails from Lausanne, played number one on the Swiss Inter-club National Team...