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L.B.J., he relates in page after fact-packed page, is "fond of soft, fattening foods-chipped beef, creamed chicken, beef stroganoff, lamb hash, stuffed peppers. He loves tapioca pudding. . . A homemade pie makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight...
...More Vote. He meant it. Over the weeks, the tax bill became burdened with such extraneous amendments as tax breaks for parents supporting college students, cutting the age for male social-welfare recipients, restricting imports on beef and lamb, and cutting the depletion allowance for oilmen. "Ah'm game for anything," announced Long. When Mike Mansfield tried to halt the farce with a compromise motion, so much confusion and misunderstanding resulted from the intricate parliamentary procedures that Mansfield ended up voting against his own amendment...
...sitting on a deck chair aboard a "boatel" on Brazil's Araguaia River munching roasted piranhas ($1,600 for three weeks), or a six-week explorer's trip through Mongolia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the diet includes sheep's eyeballs and cooked lamb's head ($3,650). As for the $5,000, five-week trip to Antarctica, the boat does not leave from the tip of Chile until January 1968-summertime at the South Pole...
Eventually, Percy and other top Republicans were forced to find a sacri ficial lamb. Last week the lamb was ritually slaughtered as Daley, 64, walked off with his fourth term by a margin of more than half a million votes. The mayor racked up 789,163-73% of the total ballots cast - while his opponent, John Waner, a prosperous, self-made heating contractor, tallied 272,955. Even in the Negro wards, from which the Democrats feared a strong protest vote, Daley outdrew Waner...
...part of the Spring refresher course that the food services has run for its employees for the past five years. In addition to the coffee demonstration, there will be a session on lamb-cutting and serving, and another on physical safety and health for dining hall employees...