Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE. James Earl Jones exudes enormous vitality as the tragic hero of Howard Sackler's play, which is based on the triumphs and trials of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion. The drama has the scope of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it as if it were a stampede; all decibels and no deftness...
...Senator Eugene McCarthy. No one else has done so much to change the course of history: the withdrawal of President Johnson from politics; Bobby Kennedy's plunge into the presidential race and ensuing events; a bombing halt in Viet Nam and peace talks; a President-elect named Richard M. Nixon...
Saigon's announcement that it would send a delegation to Paris came nearly four weeks after Lyndon Johnson announced that he was extending his limited bombing halt to cover all of North Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker waited a week for South Viet namese tempers to cool-and for the American elections to end. Then he went to work to persuade President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris. So strained were the sessions that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks...
Navy's pressuring man-to-man defense may have been the decisive factor. Harvard never was able to get its offense--especially the fast break--in gear and Dale Dover, the sophomore flash who tallied 27 against Brandeis, was held to 3. Ernie Hardy and Bobby Johnson were the only men besides Gustafson in double figures for the Crimson--with 10 apiece...
...Which of President Johnson's advisers became famous for advertising on Westinghouse commercials...