Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image-or so the experts said. Meanwhile, the L.B.J. outriders traveled all over the country, feeling out delegates, talking to political leaders, studying the political weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson-for-President headquarters had been established in a twelve-room suite in Austin by Speaker Sam Rayburn; its 14 employees and volunteer workers (including Elliott Roosevelt Jr., 23) were busy handing out campaign literature and Johnson lapel buttons (a brass cowboy hat embossed with L.B.J...
...their combined 68 years in Congress, Johnson and his staunch old ally, Speaker Sam Rayburn, have racked up a thousand political debts. The lOUs are vividly charted on a large wall map of the U.S. in the Austin headquarters of Larry Jones, a former Texas assistant attorney general, who quit his job three months ago to prepare the Johnson-for-President campaign. The map is covered with red pins in every state and cranny of the nation-each one representing a politician or politicians who can be mustered to the Johnson colors when the trumpet blows...
...Churches. In Asia and Africa, if not in Latin America, the native churches are a source of real hope to missionaries. "In essence, my job is the same as St. Paul's 1,900 years ago or my father's 70 years ago," says Presbyterian Dr. Sam Moffet in Korea. "Of course, there are differences. My father walked through valley after valley that had never heard the name of Christ. I drive down highways where I am rarely out of sight of a Christian church. And Asia's Christian churches of tomorrow will be built by Asia...
...Flying Trapeze Sir: TIME made these simple mistakes [in the March 28 story on William Saroyan's play, Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All}: 1) Sam Hark-Harkalark [not Harkaharka-lark]. 2) 100,000 [not 500,000] defective ?5 [not pound] notes...
...reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures...