Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's best moment came during a press conference, when he paraphrased Al Smith's remark that he wanted nobody to vote for him because he was a Catholic, but wanted nobody to vote against him because he was a Catholic either. Said Lyndon simply: "I don't want any of you to vote for me as a Southerner. But I don't want any of you to vote against me because I am a Southerner either...
...between him and the popular Massu; even Premier Michel Debré wanted to accept Massu's ambiguous repudiation of the interview. But at that point De Gaulle blew up. Outraged by the implication that the army had supported him only "for lack of a better man"-the one remark Massu wholeheartedly insisted he did not make-De Gaulle summarily ordered Massu relieved of his command...
Other picture magazines play variations on the Nannen themes, but the differences are usually imperceptible. This makes it hard to explain why Stern is first in the Illustrierte sweepstakes, a mystery one also-ran has solved with the invidious remark that "Nannen has the sort of hysterical temperament it takes to run an illustrated." Some German journalists argue that that is also what it takes to read...
Died. Dr. Leo Loeb, 90, German-born, Swiss-educated pathologist, whose pioneer researches (into the importance of heredity and sex hormones) led Harvard's great Physiologist Walter B. Cannon to remark: "It is impossible to view cancer research from any angle without finding it enriched by Dr. Loeb"; in St. Louis...