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...unpretentious man who likes bow ties and fine cigars, Levi, 56, has employed a dry wit and a lawyer's tough logic in his pivotal task under Beadle: raiding other faculties of their top talent. An aristocratic intellectual who reads widely at jet-pace speed, Levi developed a rapport with academicians that neatly complemented Beadle's administrative and fund-raising skills...
...have. However, the big difference between Johnson and the four Presidents he knew-Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy-is that for all his vitality, his political acumen and his impressive record of legislative achievement, he fails to communicate effectively and consistently with his constituency. Unless he can re-establish rapport with Americans in the coming months, his fortunes and those of the nation are not likely to improve...
...fine mess to Detroit." (Current holders: the local weathermen.) The Minneapolis tent shelters 150 fans, including Harry Heltzer, president of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.; members wear derbies to the meetings and hoot and holler in the best silent-film tradition. Johnny Carson prizes L. & H. for "their rapport, their genuine liking for each other." Mime Marcel Marceau calls Laurel the "maitre of all mimes in the world"; Author J. D. Salinger, who runs off old two-reelers for his children, refers to the pair as "two heaven-sent artists...
...houses of "The Hashbury," shrouding the shapes of hirsute, shoeless hippies huddled in doorways, smoking pot, "rapping" (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. The tinkle of Indian elephant bells echoes from passing "seekers"; along the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park, hollow-cheeked flower children queue up for a plateful of stew, dispensed from the busy buses of the Diggers, a band of hippie do-gooders. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals-hippies and would-be hippies with suitcases and sleeping bags, just...
Right now, the crying issues of welware, housing, sanitation, education, recreation, and jobs have been overshadowed by the immediate question of Roxbury's rapport with the Police Department. For a community that has until now focused on quiet improvement programs and unsustained pressure on the government, the crisis poses a serious problem for the so called leadership...