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Early in his tenure, this lack mattered little. After Kennedy's murder, the country needed a figure to rally round. Then it needed a responsible alternative to Goldwater. Johnson mistook happenstance for deep, wide support and even for the affection he craved. "I'm sure glad," he would say in those days, "we got rid of that image that nobody likes Lyndon...
...think TIME somewhat mistook the emphasis of C. P. Snow's Westminster College speech. Snow's prediction of disaster was not premised upon a future failure of resources, nor upon blunders yet unmade -but on the continuation of present trends that show no sign of changing...
...called the new "spoiler" genre of public-service messages that are stirring the TV air and, at times, the American conscience. Urban America Inc has a commercial showing a ghetto child who calls, "Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty." The camera discovers a rat. Voiceover: "If your child mistook a rat for a cat, how would you feel? Our cities need help, your help. If you think there's nothing you can do to help, think harder...
Hoping to Help. His skill on the court took Ashe into the best clubs, but all too often club members mistook him for a waiter and hollered: "Hey, boy, bring me a drink, will you?" At first Ashe swallowed the insults. But lately he finds himself growing blacker and more militant-on the court, as well...
What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...