Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earliest moments been recorded in such pluperfect detail. But then, as Rebekah Baines Johnson went on to explain, her first son came from no common clay. Her matriarchal scrapbook saga of Lyndon's life, from birth (weight: 10 Ibs.) in "the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons" on the Pedernales until 1931, when he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, was presented to her son four years before her death in 1958. Last week, New York's McGraw-Hill published Rebekah's testament in book form...
...family tree, minus the bar sinister. Before running off the page, it traces Lyndon's lineage back to his paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Sukey Johnson, whose date and place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest shot in the county. His favorite hymn, Rebekah attests, was Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed...
...Uncle Sam is making ominous noises and, liked dew on a hot morning, leaves of absence have evaporated. Everyone is back, nestled safely in the warmth of a 2-S, overfilling the houses. So many people have returned that the college, normally fusty about losing sight of as charges, is almost encouraging people to move off campus...
...Goodbye, SAM. No one could say, however, that U.S. aircraft were not active and to a considerable degree effective. Though the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex remained inviolate, American planes kept up their interdictory hammering of roads, rail lines and military posts. A flight of Navy Skyhawks from the carrier Independence took out the third of some 20 Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched one SAM...
...Born. To Sam Mele, 43, the American League's Manager of the Year for taking the Minnesota Twins to the top, and Mary Clemens Mele, 35: their fifth child, second son; in Quincy, Mass...