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...podium, with Lady Bird and daughters Luci and Lynda Bird standing beside him throughout, Lyndon "suggested" to the delegates that they select Humphrey as his running mate, then took a seat and waited restlessly, often in apparent boredom, while the convention approved his choice...
...destroy the department of censorship. On the third day, 2,000 students staged a sitdown in front of Khanh's office, while agitators squatting among them denounced him as "too tricky." Finally Khanh decided to resign as President, and the 62-member Military Council announced that it would "select a new national leader." With the U.S. continuing to announce its strong support of Khanh, it seemed possible that he might hang on under some new setup...
...most money-shy college students, the height of gracious living consists of an off-campus pad furnished in Salvation Army modern. For a select group of Los Angeles-area students who are working their way through school, gracious living is a Tudor-styled mansion with 13 bathrooms, tennis courts, grotto, swimming pool, and five acres of grounds landscaped with large and small waterfalls and a lagoon...
...through the A.B.A. Last week's meeting boasted the first woman invited to address the A.B.A. assembly: the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, first (1958) woman to sit in Britain's House of Lords. This year's outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts to strengthen professional ethics, equalize criminal justice...
...little magazines"-a select and often little-read group of literary periodicals-tend to remain small because they appeal to limited audiences. Yet one of the newer little magazines shows promise of surprising growth. It is the eight-year-old Tulane Drama Review, in which Editor Richard Schechner, a Tulane University Ph.D., combines a scholar's skill with the insight and pugnacity of a first-rate journalist. Since taking over two years ago, he has increased the stature of T.D.R. enough that the American National Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA...