Word: johnson
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...brought chills to millions of summer vacations with Jaws and The Deep has returned. But this time out, Peter Benchley has jettisoned the oversexed surf-and-turfers in favor of Timothy Burnham, a fortyish journalist turned speechwriter whose only obsession is quoting the wisdom of Samuel Johnson, as in ''No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.'' Burnham writes not only for money but for President Benjamin T. Winslow, bullying, foul-tongued and Johnsonesque (Lyndon, not Samuel), and the assignments are rarely more demanding than ''Representative Whipple has told me a great deal about the fine work...
...sure. Do we want another President who, like Jimmy Carter, cannot delegate responsibility or who, like Richard Nixon, reacts to criticism by feeling that he is under siege? Do we want a President who considers political conflicts to be personal affronts and responds with physical intimidation, as Lyndon Johnson sometimes did? These may be attributes of past Presidents, but presidential attributes they are not. Ward R. Hitt White Plains, N.Y. As one who worked side by side with Mario Cuomo for eight years in the cabinet of Governor Hugh Carey, and who served as commissioner of transportation in the Cuomo...
DIED. Merle Miller, 67, author who turned taped interviews into controversial oral histories of Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson; of an abdominal infection; in Danbury, Conn...
...beef and 6,000 lbs. of seafood. Guests, who paid $1,325 to $2,670 for the trip, could experience the thrust and heave of great tectonic plates of nourishment at prebreakfast, breakfast, midmorning bouillon, lunch, tea, a five-course dinner and, of course, midnight buffet. Jay Johnson, 23, a well- and happily fed store owner from Durham, N.C., speared a chunk of king crab and admitted that anyplace else ''it would cost me a fortune to eat like this.'' Passengers on such cruise ships tend to be middle-aged or elderly. They have, perhaps, toured Europe's museums...
...they were joined by soldiers from their respective states - Illinois, Nebraska and Rhode Island - for convivial conversations about what was going on in Afghanistan, life back at home, and the presidential campaign. "The food was good, but the companionship and friendship was even better," says Lt. Col. David Johnson, a public affairs officer who attended the event...