Word: johnson
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...despite Mickey's semi-retirement, his ears are still one of the most famous cultural icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has posed for photographs with every U.S. President since Harry Truman, save one (Lyndon Johnson never visited a Disney theme park). Disney claims that Mickey had a 98% awareness rate among children between ages 3-11 worldwide. Mouse-related merchandise sales have declined from their 1997 high, but they still make up about 40% of the company's consumer products revenue. Mickey returned to the big screen for a cameo in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
...Although they have presided over the largest expansion of U.S. government since the Johnson Administration, the GOP has apparently reached its line in the sand when it comes to economic bailouts. Senate majority leader Harry Reid introduced legislation on Monday that asked for $25 billion of the $700 billion bailout fund Congress approved in September to be redirected for use by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in the hopes of helping the faltering industry avoid going under. Republicans immediately balked at the idea...
...relies on a single set: a fictional newsroom on Paper Street, Chicago. The play opens with reporters waiting on the execution of Earl Williams (Graham H. Lazar ’12), an alleged communist who is convicted for shooting a policeman. The star reporter for The Chicago Enquirer, Hildy Johnson (Ryan P. Halprin ’12), strolls in smugly with the news that he is leaving the crummy newspaper world, getting married, and moving to New York to enter the glamorous advertising industry. Yet just as Hildy, suitcase in hand, is ready to leave the press room forever, news...
...Harvard wrestling team has been waiting all fall to unveil its full potential, and this weekend the squad fired on all cylinders.The Crimson grapplers opened their season at the Binghamton Brute Open on Saturday, bringing a full roster to Johnson, N.Y. in order to test the team’s progress. With three finalists and two overall winners, it is safe to say Harvard earned a passing grade.“Overall, if this is the way we’re going to start [the season], I’m excited,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said...
...death and rebirth of American liberalism both began with flags in Grant Park. On Aug. 28, 1968, 10,000 people gathered there to protest the Democratic Convention taking place a few blocks away, which was about to nominate Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, thus implicitly ratifying the hated Vietnam War. Chicago mayor Richard Daley had warned the protesters not to disrupt his city and denied them permits to assemble, but they came anyway. All afternoon, the protesters chanted and the police hovered, until about 3:30, when someone climbed a flagpole and began lowering the American flag...