Word: potters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wicker of the New York Times, Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald Tribune were invited for a fish fry. Next morning Wicker was taken on a ride in the presidential Lincoln. Chauffeur: Lyndon B. Johnson. Velocity: up to 70 m.p.h. TIME'S Hugh Sidey got a chicken dinner and a boat ride up the lower Colorado River. Guide: Lyndon B. Johnson. The Restons' visit became practically a family outing. Learning that Reston's son Richard, a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was in Austin, Johnson ordered Presidential...
...perfect host. The Scotch never ran out. The President regaled his guests with stories from the Roosevelt days, and-off the record-confided all sorts of things: what he thinks about some of his Cabinet, for instance. One night, Johnson even got on the phone to call Phil Potter's editor long distance and report that the Sun's boy was on the job. When the weekend finally ended, the presidential guests were exhausted. Not the host. Scarcely was he back in Washington than he kept a prearranged date with both houses of Congress. And there, delivering...
ANIMALS IN AFRICA by Peter and Philippa Scott. 166 pages. Clarkson N. Potter. $12.50, and ANIMAL WORLDS by Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz...
...court now stands, the usual five-member majority (consisting of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, William Brennan Jr. and Arthur Goldberg) is characterized as "liberal." The four-member minority (Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Potter Stewart and Byron White) is called "conserva tive." But once those labels are at tached, comes the rub - and a prodigious amount of punditical energy is used in trying to describe the difference between a Supreme Court liberal and a Supreme Court conservative...
...research budget. Medical alumni include two of the world's leading cancer fighters: Drs. John R. Heller Jr. and the late Thomas M. Rivers. The university also produced three noted historians-Yale's C. Vann Woodward, Virginia's Dumas Malone, Stanford's David Potter -plus Columbia Classicist Moses Hadas (see story below), Golfer Bobby Jones and the late Veep Alben Barkley...