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Hopping over to Texas two days later, Kennedy landed in a drizzle at the L.B.J. ranch, was met by Lyndon Baines Johnson outfitted in a Texas rancher's cream colored leather jacket, tan Stetson, tight pants and cowboy boots. Johnson seemed crestfallen when his leader, in grey pinstripe Ivy League, politely but firmly declined to put on a five-gallon Stetson before photographers. But L.B.J. quickly picked up the pace, hauled Kennedy off for a bumpy inspection tour in a Lincoln convertible while the press and Secret Service men trailed unhappily behind. The President-elect peered through the windshield...
Washington. Conservative Republican Lloyd J. Andrews, Spokane apple rancher turned state superintendent of public instruction, is trying to unseat Democratic Incumbent Albert ("The Rose") Rosellini, 50. Rosellini has a strong machine, but his first term was flecked with scandal; Andrews is a vibrant campaigner but lacks his opponent's political savvy. The Rose has a leaf-thin margin...
...better private-eye series, is slickly and expertly tooled (moving tree shadows, sudden screams), and uses its one-hour format to advantage by tossing in three detectives instead of the more usual single eye. Calling themselves Checkmate, Inc., the three took on their first customer last week, a female rancher (Anne Baxter) who turned out to be a murderer...
...Hoop, last week was exporting a new craze-the wobble board. Made of Masonite. the 2 ft. by 3 ft. board, when wobbled, gives off a gloop-gloop sound, like water going down the drain. With it youngsters can keep the beat to a wacky lament of a dying rancher called Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.* Australian parents are wobbling under the board's gloop. The craze has spread to Great Britain, where already 100,000 records have brought the resonant beat of the wobble board. Last week there were signs that the wobble-board craze was threatening...
Sweeping Clean. Under Mayor Ethel Stacy, wife of a retired rancher, the women briskly set about cleaning up the mess. By delaying municipal paychecks, the women wiped out Walsenburg's $5,333.75 debt of back taxes owed to the state...