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Luci Baines Johnson proved no exception. "I only want," she said last month, "as personal a wedding as possible in the circumstances in which I find myself." In reality, Luci's wedding to Patrick Nugent this week will be a semimonarchical event, a marital marathon to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams quips, "nobody is invited except the immediate country." It could hardly be otherwise in an age of ubiquitous journalistic surveillance and omnivorous curiosity about the day-to-day doings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And Lyndon Johnson has gone farther than most Presidents to share his progeny, pets, predilections...
...actually in the water. It was a great loss since, if he really did the nine miles in 65 minutes, it would be approximately four times as fast as the world's best-known ten-mile swimming record. So impressed was the president of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation that he invited Mao to enter two long-distance races that his association will sponsor this summer in Canada-unless, he suggested, Mao preferred to remain an amateur and represent Red China swimmingly in the 1968 Olympics...
...lieutenant governor," he said. And despite Humphrey's urgings of unity, the Governor would not rule out challenging Keith in the party primary in September. Any further D.F.L. feuding, of course, could only benefit Minnesota's Republicans, who at week's end had a marathon convention contest of their own before rallying around Political Novice Harold LeVander, 55, a South St. Paul attorney, as their gubernatorial candidate...
...fact, the only member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who seemed to enjoy what was going on was Chairman William Fulbright. Which was understandable, since the three experts invited to testify at his marathon foreign-policy hearings were his personal choices. The mission of the three-two psychiatrists and a psychologist-was one of the oddest in years: to put U.S. foreign policy on the analyst's couch...
...comedy with residual plot development or a semblance of character, a few such antics might be funny. Ears mistakes physical exercise for humor, and before one-third of the marathon unreels it has exhausted everyone except its agile leading man, who is still one of filmdom's sprightliest actors. But not sprightly enough, perhaps, to carry off a role that requires him almost simultaneously to be like Harold Lloyd on a high wire, Buster Keaton pratfalling in a Chinese opera, and Humphrey Bogart doing a striptease in drag...