Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...
...album of My Fair Lady (6,000,000 copies) is second. This month her LP of Christmas songs, recorded as a special premium offer for Firestone, is selling like crazy at Firestone dealers for $1 a throw. Even her rare appearances on television ring up records. Her last TV special, in November 1965, pulled 35 million viewers-more than the Streisand show or the Carol Channing show or the Sinatra show that season. Small wonder that the Motion Picture Herald poll of exhibitors, to be published next month, will name Andrews as the No. 1 box-office star...
Massaging the Fat. Lyndon Johnson has so artfully arranged the evidence that nobody can be certain whether he intends to raise taxes or hold the line. "New numbers come in almost every day," said Ackley, and Johnson juggles them with the skill of a center-ring virtuoso. Last week, for example, aides in Austin hinted that the fiscal 1968 budget might total $140 billion-an almost certain portent of higher taxes. Almost immediately, however, they began "massaging" the fat out of that figure. Come January, and-presto!-Johnson will look like a genius if he unveils a budget...
...University of Texas offered L.B.J., who says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...
...whether the Italians have anything like it. "Sure," replies Cooper. "We have the Mothers and Fathers' Italian Association-the M.A.F.I.A." Another case in point is the rash of Polish jokes ("Why won't they let a Pole swim in Lake Michigan? Because he'll leave a ring"), which began almost underground but now venture into the light. Explains Comic Phyllis Diller: "If it's too close to the truth, it isn't funny. The Poles are far removed from ignorance and dirt, so it's all right...