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...many ways, President Johnson's anti-inflation package failed to wrap up answers to the nation's basic economic problems. But, for at least the short term, it provided a lot of ribbon, and Wall Street investors responded enthusiastically...
Come off it, lads. A rat's a rat, and hanging a blue ribbon on the beast won't turn him into a prize Pomeranian...
None of that stuffy oldtime ribbon-snipping for Mayor John V. Lindsay. New York, says His Honor, is a "fun city," and he and his merry men do things that way. Out in Central Park to dedicate a new Fountain Café, Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked...
...supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept in public...
Volpe's handling of the Sales Tax issue is cited to illustrate that Republicans can be as determined and aggressive as Democrats while conducting themselves in a more statesman-like manner. And Richardson's transformation of the lieutenant governor's office from the residence of the Commonwealth's ribbon-cutter to the policy-making center for many of the state's health, education and welfare programs is offered as a sign of Republican imagination...