Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Ethel an enthusiasm for tennis," he says. He also sometimes met with Bobby on Saturdays. "He would go to his office wearing old clothes, with his dog Brumus and kids trailing behind," Gorey recalls. "We would talk about Viet Nam and the speculation that he would challenge Lyndon Johnson for the White House." When Bobby finally declared his candidacy, Gorey covered what became an exhilarating campaign -- and a national tragedy. Gorey was across the room at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5 when Kennedy was assassinated...
...retrospect, the crusade is what it was in prospect: the most exciting, intimate and high-stakes presidential campaign of modern times. In 1968 the nation was hopelessly fractious. Besieged by opposition to a war not wanted and not understood, Lyndon Johnson was more a prisoner than a President, hostage to his Texas-macho aversion to becoming the "first American President to lose a war." The brother of his martyred predecessor, whose policies had mired the nation in the mess in the first place, wanted Johnson's job and an end to the war. So did Clean Gene McCarthy...
...Hopkins institute's provisional director,Professor of Neurology Richard H. Johnson, saidthat institute also has two policy boards whichconnect the researchers and convey their findingsto legislators at local, state and federal levels.Johnson said the Hopkins organizers have alsotried to coordinate grant proposals in order toconnect researchers in several fields, thus makingthe proposals more attractive. The coordinationalso helps to prevent Hopkins researchers fromsubmitting competing proposals, he said
...great is the risk of the AIDS virus being transmitted between male and female sex partners? Americans have been told both not to worry and, in a sensationalized book by Sexologists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, that AIDS is "running rampant" among heterosexuals. Now Dr. Norman Hearst and Dr. Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco have calculated the odds of heterosexual transmission. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that the chance of getting AIDS ranges from 1 in 500 for a single act of intercourse with an infected partner...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Jacob V. Lamar, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...