Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atlanta, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a Boeing plant outside Seattle...
...favorites-and leisurely pace. For the same type of sequence that an American network packs into 60 to 90 seconds, the Chinese frequently used more than five minutes, unbroken by commercials. Teng's diplomatic activities, his excursions to a Ford Motor plant outside Atlanta and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston, plus all social gatherings were presented in loving detail...
...their visit, the Chinese reporters exasperated quote-hungry Americans with their studied reticence and spirit of bland approval. Ultimately, the expansive city of Houston inspired one reporter to venture a faintly salty comment. Confronted by an exhibit of lunar modules, space suits and moon buggies at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center, he saw fit to paraphrase ex-Premier Chou Enlai: "We have too many problems down here on earth. Until we solve them, there's no point in going to the moon...
Exterminators spray different entryways of the graduate student apartment complex weekly, and if a student so requests, private apartments as well, Erica Johnson, secretary to the superintendent of Peabody Terrace, said yesterday. She added that during the early fall the superintendent's office received approximately ten complaints a week about cockroaches, but is now averaging one complaint weekly from students...
...confronted was, no monumental crisis arose against which the newcomer from Georgia could truly define himself. He could not single-mindedly fight the Depression and the Axis as did Franklin Roosevelt. He could not push through a major civil rights act and wage a war on poverty as did Johnson. Few unexpected gestures seemed to offer themselves. The first opening to China gave Nixon an aura of authority in foreign affairs, and the Cuban missile crisis offered John Kennedy the chance to prove his courage...