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...announcement comes in "several months' " time, it will almost have to be yes. Meanwhile, Johnson all but gave the nod to Hubert Humphrey as his running mate. "I have never known a public servant that 1 worked better with, or for whom I had more admiration, or who I thought was more entitled to the public trust than the Vice President," said Johnson. "I felt that way when 1 asked the convention in Atlantic City to select him, and I feel even stronger about it today...
...perch and hurled them to the street, where they were trampled to death. Though the nationalists seemed to be maiming one another at first, the surging street crowds soon began blaming the bloodshed on the British. Two British women were killed by a Czech-made bomb planted by a servant at a cocktail party. British troops with tommy guns guarded European children at school and European swimmers bathing within the shark nets in the harbor...
...straighten the hair, achieves status and pregnancy by sleeping with the white "bass." On this level, integration makes a mess of both races. Archie Ferris expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with a hangover -and the chandelier. Thus Novelist Mclntosh points up his pessimistic theorem about the future of Africa. The blacks will inherit nothing of value from association with the whites, who will themselves be corrupted...
...course, Goldberg is not the kind of public servant who arouses deep feelings about him either way. He repeats his oft-garbled message to the point of tedium in a deep, almost rueful. Midwestern monotone. In an interview during his stay at Harvard, he spent most of a half-hour looking at the floor, occasionally gesturing weakly with his hands. Questions about American policy simply don't excite the U.N. Ambassador -- he just returns the line one expects in those tired, dull, even-paced tones. Never a smile; the same pitch all the time...
...special stop in Casablanca to pick him up, was a 136-member party that included five princes, two princesses, nine Cabinet ministers, two generals, nine lance bearers in orange capes, his court physician, a maitre d'hótel, the royal chef, four cooks and a white-jelabbed servant whose only duty is to brew the kingly coffee...