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Brass Tacks & Corn Pone. Thailand posed especially delicate problems for Johnson. One of the strongest anti-Communist nations in Southeast Asia, Thailand was fast losing its faith in the U.S. after the debacle in neighboring Laos. Johnson set the mood for his reassuring talks with Sarit by stopping off at Bangkok's SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people...
...three sessions together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
Conservative Reluctance. His closest rival is Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year...
...rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...