Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson even acknowledged that he can be difficult to deal with. On his first race for the Senate in 1948, L.B.J. related, a reporter visiting campaign headquarters took note of all the milk-drinking ulcer sufferers on the staff, wondered why Johnson had no ulcers. "Well," explained Campaign Manager John Connally, now Governor of Texas, "he is just in the business of giving them, not getting them." Maybe, allowed the President reflectively, it was his turn at last to be on the receiving...
...Please note General Taylor's reply when Senator Hickenlooper asked whether the U.S. had any commitment to put in fighting forces in Viet Nam before 1965. General Taylor said: "No sir, very clearly we made no such commitment. We didn't want such a commitment. This was the last thing we had in mind...
Indeed, driving across the country this fall, a foreigner might conclude that the U.S. has a no-party system. In state after state, signs blazon forth the candidates' names, faces and slogans, but, often as not, neglect to mention, or note only in microscopic type, whether they are Democrats or Republicans (see billboards). "Whatever your party -he is your man," proclaim the posters of Iowa's John Kyi. "Vote Volpe-he does what he says" is the message in Massachusetts; "Milton Shapp, a man you can trust!" in Pennsylvania; "Sparkman best for Alabama" in the Yellowhammer state. Even...
...Chronicle and F.D.R.'s wartime Secretary of Commerce. His Houston Endowment Inc. had laid out $7,300,000 for the travertine-faced structure that is the centerpiece for Houston's new cultural complex. No expense was spared. When a fireplug by the entrance created a jarring esthetic note, it was chrome-plated. And when Jesse T. Jones Jr., nephew of the publisher, handed Mayor Louie Welch a gold key to the hall, he said pointedly: "That key really works. Uncle Jesse liked things to work...
...those who commit or attempt suicide? At one large university, the son of a small-town pharmacist tried to become a physician, as his father had urged. But he flunked chemistry and vomited while dissecting a frog. He wrote a note saying that he had dishonored himself, then shot himself. A highly creative coed at a large Eastern private school scored high marks in some classes, dismal grades in others. She was a loner, obviously unhappy, and she jumped from the 14th floor of the campus library. In her room, authorities found a novel she had completed. Professors said that...