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...indeed, and Byrd got the full treatment-including a lunch of potato soup and salad, and a tour around the President's Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the White House swimming pool, and even, as Byrd later described it, a "little room where he gets his rub." What Lyndon wanted was a promise from Byrd that the Finance Committee would, early in January, report out a bill for a tax cut retroactive to Jan. 1, 1964. Byrd agreed-but only on condition that Johnson first gave the Finance Committee a look at next year's proposed budget figures...
Panic? Army was lusting for blood. The Middies had trounced the Cadets four straight years-and they were eleven-point favorites to make it five. To rub it in, Navy's gold uniforms had "Drive for Five" lettered on the back. Navy was the nation's No. 2 team. Quarterback Roger Staubach was the most talked about player in college football. Army's quarterback was a converted halfback, Rollie Stichweh, and most of the 102,000 fans in Philadelphia Stadium could not even pronounce his name (it rhymes with which...
...Argentina has almost all the oil it can use. By 1961 foreign oilmen had drilled 1,900 wells. The oilmen now produce 80,000 bbl. a day, for which they get a guaranteed price. Meantime, Y.P.F. also doubled its own production to 180,000 bbl. daily. Therein lay the rub. Because it was obligated to buy the companies' oil, Y.P.F. had to cap many of its own wells, complained angrily that the total cost of the oil to the government oil company was now more than it once paid to import oil. This the private companies denied...
School bells were ringing, and young royalty was off to rub elbows with untitled folk. Britain's Princess Anne, 13, and Jordan's Princess Basma, 12, were at boarding school at Benenden, 42 miles from London. Would they make their own beds? panted reporters. Of course. And would Radcliffe's first royal student, Sweden's Princess Christina, 20? Yes, she nodded wearily to Boston newsmen. Having attended to the questions, the blonde princess set about orienting herself, and so did Harvard students. Turned out that pretty Christina had brought along from Sweden her own toughest competition...
...sense of tradition and loyalty that was so important in directing him toward poetry in the first place, now impelled him to put his art at the service of his country. "It was our duty to rub off these dirty marks from our banner and to restore the original meaning of our revolutionary concepts," he declares...