Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plenary" session usually lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The delegations then break up into smaller, "postplenary" working groups over coffee, tea, juice, cookies and peanuts. (Warnke's predecessor, U. Alexis Johnson, instituted a dry rule in 1973, fearing that one drink too many during a postplenary might lead to an inadvertent breakthrough-or breakdown...
Curator Clem Conger shut the East Room and put in a new parquet floor. After 30 million tourists since 1948, Lyndon Johnson's Fox-Trot, Jimmy Carter's Charleston and a few other indignities, the wood was paper thin...
...Grove (pop. 4,489) at 9:30 a.m., dozens of thirsty bikers preempted the Alibi Lounge, chugalugging beers and cheering with every glass as if it were the last St. Patrick's Day, later forming a conga line on Main Street. At midmorning, in Washta (pop. 319), Joyce Johnson and friends from the United Methodist Church sold 600 Ibs. of hamburger and 400 Ibs. of hot dogs, 1,500 pieces of fruit, 7,000 candy bars and close to 280 cases of soda (no beer); the women figured on a $2,000 profit for the church. Outside Iowa Falls...
...epistolary novel was moved up to the 1920s--the version that brought fame to Bela Lugosi (whom I saw play it here in Boston near the end of his life) and is now doing the same on Broadway for Frank Langella. Nor is it the later adaptation by Crane Johnson, which I have never seen...
...Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...