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...days left of his active-duty tour as an Airman First Class, Patrick Nugent landed in Austin, Texas, to an enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...Johnson gone to Chicago, his 60th birthday would have been celebrated in Soldier Field (capacity: 77,000). Instead, he had coffee and cake at Daughter Luci's red brick ranch-style house in suburban Austin, Texas. Lady Bird and Grandson Lyn were there, as well as two busloads of newsmen. "I am not talking to the convention," he told the reporters, lest he be accused of stage-managing the affair. "I don't have anyone reporting to me other than Walter Cronkite...
Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...
...decide to refuse cooperation with Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
...Litt.D. degree for her "concern for the natural beauty of this country." Next day at Yale, Lady Bird boosted her program again despite a silent "vigil" by 1,000 Yalies. The university came across with no honorary degree, but the Political Union did contribute a baby gift for Grandson Lyn Nugent -a stuffed musical bulldog that plays Boola-Boola...