Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mike Mansfield had indeed read a memo in which he hoped that Johnson wouldn't be ferocious, but he also told Johnson that he'd support any action the President might take. Congressman Ford did have a lunch for nine Washington reporters, but he did not say anything about Mansfield's putting the blocks to Johnson. (TIME was at the lunch...
...scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats another chapatty covered with watery gruel, and perhaps a slice of mango chutney hoarded by his wife to give the food some flavor. Then back to the plow...
...seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed the premiership, have done little to slow Shas-tri's dogged pace. He is blessed by an old Nehru tradition...
...heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read for profit, party for contacts, lunch for contracts, bowl for unity, drive for mileage, gamble for charity, go out for the evening for the greater glory of the municipality, and stay home for the weekend to rebuild the house." Who has time to read for pleasure...
...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee will invade the Union to hold a fund drive Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday, at lunch and dinner. Buttons, literature, and records will be sold, and speakers will be present to discuss SNCC...