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The rift between Johnson and Connally was short-lived but it was enough to encourage the liberals considerably. They concluded that the President was committed to a liberal program and wanted to see men elected to the Senate who would support that program. They hoped also that he might be...
By his high school years, the Shields protege will be spending every weekend day, every summer, racing around triangular courses in Penguins or Blue Jays or Lightnings. When he graduates to larger craft, he will need his weekdays off (no summer work for him) to perfect his skills in rigorous...
Public Slugging. Of the two, Mayer is both the more messianic and the more corrosive. A wisecracking, easygoing chap, he was a protege of the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, taught in Mortimer Adler's Great Books program before launching a career as a freelance writer...
FORD MOTOR Co.'s problem is to make the Mercury rise in Detroit's hotly competitive climate. Last week Henry Ford II picked a man for the job, promoting Paul Francis Lorenz, 47, from assistant general manager of the Lincoln-Mercury Division to vice president and chief of...
Under cover of darkness, his 300 paratroopers moved in from Camp Chinaimo outside Vientiane, picked up some 2,700 like-minded soldiers from other units and in less than two hours held all the key points in the city. Kong Le deposed the right-wing government, although Phoumi had been...