Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassed" the group. Steven is not everybody's idea of an editor, since he goes heavy on local sensationalism, as does the rival Houston Post. But he should have no trouble finding a job. President Johnson, in fact, offered him one or two after inviting him to lunch at the L.B.J. Ranch. But Steven said thanks anyway, not just now. He plans a six-month vacation far from Houston before he makes up another job-hunting list...
...fair circuit also imposes its conditions. Even between shows, the headliner is always on. He can count on being greeted by the mayor, booked to attend a P.T.A. lunch, scheduled to address the Lions' Club. The most conscientious, like Ernie Ford, spend off-hours playing the local children's hospital, old folks' home, and perhaps the jail. There are command performances at shopping centers and interviews with every 1-kw. disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits...
...five-story, 18,000-m.p.h. Titan II of the type that is scheduled to launch this week's eight-day Gemini mission, remained in place as 55 civilian workmen swarmed up and down the silo's nine levels. "Something Wrong?" Some workers were still returning from lunch one day last week when there was a blast and a flash of flame. "The lights went out," recalls Gary Lay, 18, who was cleaning up debris on the second level. "Everybody was hollering, 'Let's get out of here!' I tried to go down a ladder...
...lunch in the Mayflower Hotel on Nov. 22 when word came that the President had been shot in Dallas. "He's still alive," said a friend hopefully. "You will learn that he is dead," insisted Mrs. Dixon...
...electric cart, making sure that workers use ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What he experienced did not sit well with Smith, who first began stamping out roof fittings on a press in his father's basement. Last week, in a controversy that vastly embarrassed the exchange...