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...ranch while the President was conferring in the dining room with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, whom he had just named Ambassador to the United Nations. For 40 frustrating minutes Hurd watched L.B.J. get up from his chair, sit down, get up, pace the floor, tug at his ear, rub his nose, wipe his brow-in short, do everything but sit for his portrait...
...since the fall of 1946, when Harry Truman hardly dared utter a word in public for fear that his own unpopularity would rub off on exposed Democratic candidates, had a President remained so sequestered from a national election campaign. Lyndon Johnson had not exactly planned it that way. Early in July the President hinted that he would visit all 50 states on behalf of Democratic candidates, but the sharp summer slump in his popularity caused the program to be scuttled. Last week he joined the battle for the first time since Labor Day, traditional kickoff date for formal electioneering. Instead...
...means to saw, »»»>»»» to rub, ^ to use a mallet, and f f f to tap the chair with the bow. Sometimes he even uses plain old-fashioned musical notes...
Where the rub lies is not with the style but the figure beneath. In suits, hourglass figures turn dumpy, short girls appear midgeted. If the suit is too tight, it bunches embarrassingly; too loose, and the wearer looks like Mary Martin in a sailor suit. The triumphs, when they are turned out, reflect both the high level of tailoring now common in feminine fashion and the trim figures of today's health-conscious women. What remains in doubt is whether pants suits will stay around long enough to produce classics. The very quality of daring that at the moment...
What the law school is the state very largely is-and there's the rub. For a century the school allowed its all-white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...