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...reconvened in January. After the tide of dramatic legislation so ardently enacted in 1965, there seemed little left to do but pass routine bills to fuel the new multitude of Great Society programs. But then the President's State of the Union message launched a whole new raft of legislative proposals. These, together with Congress' penchant for much-bally-hooed hearings such as its Viet Nam and auto safety inquiries, have kept the Hill ahum. One recent day the House alone held 33 committee and subcommittee meetings, more than on any previous day in memory...
...common instinct, the whole flock homes in on King's Road, site of such bird boutiques as Bazaar, and Granny Takes a Trip, as well as Hung On You, the "kinkiest" (wildest) men's shop, which features "The '30s Look": George Raft lapels, Bogart fedoras, Al Capone boutonnieres. The sport of the day is mainly sauntering, not shopping, but, as Cathy McGowan explains, "it's a very serious business. The point is to show off your close gear, and you have to do it in the proper style." Cathy, with Mick Jagger, 21, lead vocalist...
...wonderful place to get away from it all," said Lady Bird Johnson. How she knew was a mystery. Accompanied by a 24-raft flotilla of 60 newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol...
...hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch. The river, which frequently falls so low that rafts cannot negotiate it, was also up to the occasion...
...raft of scandal sheets that publish their photos have been hit by innumerable lawsuits but seldom hurt by them-awards often amount to no more than a symbolic one franc. Now, however, one newspaper has been ordered to pay $8,000 in damages to the family of the late actor Gerard Philipe -the largest sum yet awarded for photographic invasion of privacy by a newspaper...