Word: riding
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Thus, in a speech to committee members, National Chairman William Miller (who reaffirmed that he will step down from his job once the G.O.P. nominates a candidate in July) blistered Johnson for his tendency to "ride at least two horses-even three, if that can be managed." Miller recalled that in 1960, while Johnson was running at the same time for Vice President and for re-election to his Texas Senate seat, he supported two conflicting platforms-one from the national Democratic convention, the other from the Texas state convention...
...Texas' Democratic Governor John Connally wore Western boots, a big felt Stetson, checkered sports shirt, tan twill pants. His right arm, in a cast from the wrist to the elbow, was supported by a black-bandanna sling. "I'll ride with you," the Governor told his visitor. "Turn right and go on down that road. We've got some work to do on these roads, but they aren't as bad as they look...
...Wicker of the New York Times, Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald Tribune were invited for a fish fry. Next morning Wicker was taken on a ride in the presidential Lincoln. Chauffeur: Lyndon B. Johnson. Velocity: up to 70 m.p.h. TIME'S Hugh Sidey got a chicken dinner and a boat ride up the lower Colorado River. Guide: Lyndon B. Johnson. The Restons' visit became practically a family outing. Learning that Reston's son Richard, a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was in Austin, Johnson ordered Presidential...
...keeps in shape during the winter by skiing on snow. The two, he says, are a lot alike: "You go as deep into the hook as possible, swinging to the bottom of the wave, then to the top, then back down again-and shoot through for a long, long ride. The idea is to rock the board back and forth with your feet, just like you do with a pair of skis-then break out of the tube at the last minute, just before you get wiped...
Albany. Montgomery was one of the first great battles won by the Negro in the South, and for a while after it was won everything seemed anticlimactic to King. When the sit-ins and freedom-ride movements gained momentum, King's S.C.L.C. helped organize and support them. But King somehow did not seem very efficient, and his apparent lack of imagination was to bring him to his lowest ebb in the Negro movement...