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Scene: the White House lawn. Time: after 10 p.m. on the night of a crucial U.N. Security Council debate on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Dramatis personae: CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather and a camera crew that he kept on after others left, in hopes of getting a post-debate statement. TV lights are on, microphones are live, cameras...
...Enter, lawn left, Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, hand in hand. Double take by Rather. Then: "Good evening, Mr. President." Pleasantries. The President and the First Lady stroll on, then return to Rather. Cameras on by now, taping. Almost casually, the President tells Rather that developments of the day had kept the U.S.-Russia détente intact, had helped save the U.N. He had had "some exchanges" with the Russians-the first hard news on use of the hot line. Lady Bird tugs L.B.J. out of the light, but he returns. The Israelis are not going to give...
Perhaps. But that big money contributes a great deal. And U.S. sport is none the worse because TV's expensive insistence on excellence has turned true amateurs into a vanishing class-unless the statistics include "amateur" tennis players who get $9,000 a year from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association for playing on the Davis Cup team, or the track stars who compete for phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club...
Tates' house in Monteagle, near Chattanooga, he was told there was no room. "You would have to camp on the lawn," said Mrs. Tate, who was already busy with a novel, her family, three guests and the cooking. Lowell bought a pup tent at Sears, Roebuck, pitched it on the lawn, moved in, and slept there for two months...
...drain in her bathroom sink was clogged, and Mrs. Frances Moore of Oak Lawn, Ill., decided to clean it out with Drāno. But before she could unscrew the cap, the can exploded at the seam and her face was splattered with the product, which is more than half lye. In less than two minutes, she was blinded for life. That was nearly eight years ago. Last week, after listening to her story, a Cook County Circuit Court jury decided that the Drackett Products Co., manufacturers of Drāno, should...