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...microfilmed records of Government agencies. Stored in red buckram boxes embossed with the presidential seal, they will fill four floors of archives. But the 43,000 boxes will represent only the surface; in addition, there are nearly 1,000,000 photographs of Johnson's official and family activities, reel after reel of color movie film, and an oral-history section that includes 600 taped interviews with such diverse personalities as George Wallace, James Farmer, Dean Rusk and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who gave three long interviews on L.B.J.'s relationship with his family...
...shoebox under my arm contained a tangled reel, a 25? red-and-white bobber and a dozen rusty hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr., one of Florida's foremost bass fishermen, Sam unpacked armfuls of monogrammed rods and gleaming reels, a stack of Bassmaster magazines and a tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks...
...Alexander Liberman is one of America's leading sculptors. His work has a stringency and a humanistic resonance that have seldom met in a sculptor's work since David Smith died. Yet his name is not always on the list of instant preferences that a curator might reel off. "I have always been plagued," Liberman sighs, "by suspicions that in some indefinable way I am not quite serious. And that's because I have a job." The job is as editorial director of Conde Nast; he has been there in one position or another since 1941, when...
...resolutely suburban home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tyne (Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin), who come to the tardy realization that their daughter has skipped. Tyne and his best friend (Tony Harvey) set out to track her down. They stumble into a local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they have a generous number of nightcaps with their spouses and generally make asses of themselves. Rather clumsily the less-than-novel point is made: parents are self-centered hypocrites who worry about their daughter's taking drugs while they numb themselves nightly with booze...
...apply the Supreme Court decision against Yamashita in 1946 to the present situation in Vietnam," said Reel, the defense attorney for Yamashita, "General Westmoreland and even President Johnson are guilty of committing war crimes...