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...belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa Republican H. R. Gross grouched that he was not going to contribute $5 for an "heiress" he did not know, and Luci gracefully requested that the idea be dropped. Other well-wishers sent the bride...
Some unpleasantness was inevitable. After Aug. 6 was set as the date, the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, an organization of Japanese and American pacifists, protested that this was the anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...
...Luci, the last few months became a blurred montage of interviews and photographs, of last-minute domestic tips from her mother and from Cook Zephyr Wright, of shopping excursions in Manhattan and Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match...
...confirmed, they would both attend the University of Texas, he to study for a master's degree in business administration and she to work on a bachelor's degree "in I don't know what"-and Luci hinted that she might also take courses in typing and shorthand, which her father considers "the two greatest virtues" a woman can have. What would they do for income? "I haven't heard," she said archly, "of a lot of schools that give salaries." Insisting nonetheless that they would support themselves, she confided that her fiance "has pretty much...
Their first house will be considerably more stylish than the average students' quarters. Luci noted that it has "two skylights, which I find just great, and besides, they save electricity." More specifically, the house at 1105 Heritage Way, of a type that rents for about $165 a month in Austin, is half of a new two-family duplex in one of the city's better residential neighborhoods. The Nugents will have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a cathedral ceiling in the living room, wall-to-wall carpeting in two rooms, an automatic dishwasher in the kitchen, air conditioning throughout...