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That still leaves the Attorney General's job open. If Johnson does not name Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, a Bobby protege, to the permanent job, the most likely man is Houston Lawyer Leon Jaworski, 59, a longtime Lyndon pal...
...couldn't sit still. Periodically during the evening, he emerged into full view of waiting TV cameras. Now it was to the gubernatorial mansion to visit with Governor John Connally, now to the election headquarters of Senator Ralph Yarborough, now back to the Driskill, now to the Munici- pal Auditorium. Each time, reporters caught him to cadge a fresh word, a hint of triumph, and each time the President managed to wear a properly somber expression. Yes, he felt well. No, he would have no statement till later. "I'll have a statement if you'll just...
Late one August night in Miami, Mrs. Charles Worthington, 67, heard a call from her stepson Richard. She hurried to his room and was slugged to the floor by Richard's pal, Joel Gebhardt, 20. As Joel smothered her screams, Richard beat Mrs. Worthington to death with an iron bar. For three hours the youths sat around discussing how to split the Worthingtons' $40,000 estate. Then they crept into the bedroom of Richard's father, Charles Worthington, where Joel killed the sleeping contractor by firing a .22 rifle bullet into his brain. Next day the youths...
PARKER PEN has mechanized the pen-pal business. An IBM machine, stuffed with 65,000 names gathered the world over, matches ages and hobbies in minutes. Those interested can correspond with French spelunkers, Australian fur farmers or Arabian schoolboys...
...moderated melodrama to the requirements of realism, and they have punctuated their safari with some glorious fun. The episode in which the friendly enemies get looped on native liquor and then go bungling through the boondocks in search of a lone leopard ("You take uh one on uh lef, pal, an' I'll take uh one on uh right") is one of the sappiest hunting scenes ever written. Thanks mostly to the vivid work of the principal players, the central characters come off as wonderfully real and specific people, so much themselves that they couldn't possibly...