Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Democrats, as they well knew, were working against the clock. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland joined hands in the argument that too much legislation was backed up for the Senate to get bogged down in a long debate on civil rights. (And this was precisely the way that Southerners in the House had planned it as they stalled off a favorable House civil-rights vote-279 to 126-until early last week.) "The Senator from New York is a practical man," Knowland put it to New York's Lehman. "It is only kidding minority...
...could have the nomination almost for the asking would probably not accept it; Texas' Lyndon Johnson considers his place as Senate Democratic leader more important than the Vice President's chair, sees little reason for compromising his 1960 presidential chances by appearing on what he suspects will be a losing 1956 ticket against Eisenhower. Moreover, although he has recovered from his own heart attack a year ago. Johnson 1) knows that his candidacy would weaken the Democrats' health issue against the President, and 2) would like another four years to build up his own strength for campaigning...
High Hopes. Already qualified as an Olympic broad-jumper, Johnson paced himself nicely through the decathlon, made it all look so easy that fans could almost believe him when he insisted that in regular meets, he often works far harder. He started out by winning the 100-meter dash. He won the broad jump, placed third in the shot put, dropped to ninth in the high jump, with an injured knee, but tied for first (with Notre Dame's Aubrey Lewis) in the 400-meter run, toughest of the first day's tests...
Next afternoon Johnson took a third in the hurdles. Then, in the process of taking first place in the discus throw, he reinjured his left knee. Even so, he placed second in the pole vault, third in the javelin throw. But he dropped far back in the grinding 1,500-meter run. Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history...
...Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naiveté of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March...