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...Lyndon's bash. All the Republicans could think about was new amendments to the bill. For example, Kansas' Bob Dole introduced an amendment to give the First Lady rather than the Secretary of Commerce the power to enforce the beautification bill. It got nowhere. Nor did a raft of other G.O.P. amendments. The more the Democrats tried to choke off the beautification debate, the angrier the opposition became...
Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S. District Judge Peirson Hall in Los Angeles. "Oh, thank you, your honor!" cried old Movie Mobster George Raft, 70, as the judge fined him a mere $2,500 on one count of filing a false income tax return but dismissed five other charges amounting to $50,000 in back taxes-and a possible $25,000 in fines and 15 years in prison. "I told you not to thank the judge," said Judge Hall. So George proceeded to thank...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...
...Larry O'Brien, John Kennedy's most artful campaign manager and Capitol Hill strategist, who has since shouldered the bigger burden of pushing Johnson's mighty legislative raft through Congress...
Meanwhile, under pressure from a starving economy and Castro's brutal security forces, the ragtag exodus of Cubans from their homeland continues. Last week a yachtsman off Miami rescued onetime Camagüey Province Governor Luis Casas Martinez, 36, from a raft on which he had drifted alone for twelve days after escaping from a Castro prison. Casas Martinez, whose sister fled to Florida in 1964, had once been a Castro official, but he fell into disfavor. An X tattooed over his heart marked him for death for plotting against Castro. He was the latest of more than...