Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild men, have the President's ear. What kind of stupidity is that?" Once anathema in the South, Humphrey has lately found himself welcome in such places as North Carolina, where the Governor two years ago was roundly criticized for permitting him to sleep in the executive mansion, and Louisiana, where Governor John Mc-Keithen nurses hopes of becoming No. 2 man on a future Humphrey ticket...
...could not have been an easy situation for anyone concerned. While Sanchez worked in his second-floor office of La Fortaleza, the Governor's mansion, with Jeannette near by, his wife occupied a ground-floor office almost directly underneath, where she held court as the commonwealth's first lady. As the romance blossomed, so did Jeannette's governmental duties. Before she resigned, she not only acted as the Governor's assistant but also headed the Department of State, the protocol section, the Institute of Culture and press relations...
...planning to rest on her laurels. In the future, she plans to build an entire room in her colossal style, and perhaps eventually-who knows?-a whole mansion. "Now that I'm economically free-my God! There's nothing I can't use," she exclaims. "Plastic, Plexiglas, metal-you'd think I've lived all this time just for these new materials." She has already built several transparent structures with glass and Plexiglas. "Who wants to live in the past?" she asks. "Man must face up to himself. I like to build my own environment...
Before returning to Washington, Johnson addressed 125 Southern educators and Government officials at Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington's executive mansion in Nashville. Straying from his subject-education and poverty programs-Johnson noted that he was often criticized for spending too much on space exploration. "If we get nothing else from that space program than the photographic satellite," he said, "it is worth ten times over the money we've spent. Without the satellites, I'd be operating by guess and by God. But I know exactly how many missiles the enemy...
After meeting for three days at the home of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a posh mansion in Brookline, the group condemned the use of nuclear bombs, even for peaceful purposes, including Project Plowshare, which plans to harness nuclear explosions for such projects as the digging of a new sea-level Panama Canal...