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This scenario describes "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" better than it does the history of SDS: Landau neglects to mention that the slogan of SDS in 1964 was "Part of the way with LBJ!" This "free-wheeling" organization somehow never wheeled its way to political radicalism and an alliance with the working class...
Disappointed by his poor performance. Cetrulo was overheard quoting Ecelesiastes on the trip back from New York, as he drove the rented Plymouth Fury close to LBJ's land speed record. "I returned and saw under the sun/That the race is not to the swift/Nor the Battle to the strong/Neither yet riches to men of understanding/But time and chance happeneth to them all," he kept on repeating as he took the turns...
...good old "Abe" Muskie is reported to be the favorite of the LBJ-Mayor Daley-John Connally axis of the Democratic Party. Texans Johnson and Connally understand oil-and I'm sure Muskie is willing to learn...
...elected President two years ago this week. That Nixon, you may recall, was the "Bring Us Together" man, the low-profile President who went about his business as quietly as possible, if also as deviously as possible. A President as detestable in his way as LBJ was in his-yet calmer, dull...
...another co-founder and jack-of-all-trades, now in hiding; and Verandah Porche, poet-in-residence who termed their band "refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors; leafleting LBJ's favorite church; roaming Washington's streets on the night of Martin Luther King's death; and , in the climax, outwitting the rival faction of the LNS with a daring daylight raid on its offices...