Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things in this world appeal more to Lyndon Johnson than driving around his Texas ranch in an air-conditioned car with a sheaf of favorable public-opinion polls in his pocket. Last week the President was really living...
...suffering women and children of Viet Nam's Liberation Front" as "a token of my shame and sorrow." Next it was the U.S. Treasury's turn, and they announced a violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Which didn't mean Kent could pocket the $10,000, because an American can't take rubles out of Russia anyway...
London, more than Paris, is where the action is these days, and this pocket-size volume concentrates on the action. It avoids taxing the mind or the arches with museums, historical monuments and other cultural shrines. Instead, there is selective advice on how to establish oneself as a temporary Londoner: what newspapers and magazines to buy, which names to drop, when to be at which pubs or discotheques, and how to attack in the ticket-buying, reservation-cadging, club-crashing wars. The author, a TIME contributing editor who also wrote the April 15, 1966, cover story on swinging London, organizes...
...have kept my cool. I haven't bugged out. I am still in Fat City." So, acting in his capacity as President of all the people, Lyndon Johnson pulled from his hippie pocket a speech that took sardonic note of "the generation gap." Addressed to 121 Presidential Scholars before a White House dinner, the speech drew freely from a slightly obsolescent hippie lexicon that Lynda Bird had compiled for McCall...
Hathaway's rising profits will continue to drop into the C. & N.W. pocket, where Heineman will undoubtedly put them to further use. "I have every expectation," says he, "that we will expand." Not the least promising expansion area is that old cyclical railroad business itself. The C. & N.W. already has ICC permission to merge with the smaller Chicago Great Western, and Heineman is dickering to include the Milwaukee Road and the Rock Island in his increasingly profitable network...