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With his sunburned face the shade of a beet, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson arrived home last week from his nearly 30,000-mile "fact-seeking" mission through Asia. The White House, emphasizing the importance of the trip, gave him a hero's welcome: John Kennedy dispatched a brace of helicopters to Andrews Air Force Base for L.B.J. and his Lady Bird, ordered out the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps for a greeting ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. That done, Johnson withdrew with the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Kennedy's study...
...proudly tendered an eight-word first paragraph for a story about economic conditions: "Will there be a boom or a bust?" After repeated tries, the reporter boiled it down to one word: "Boom?" This was followed by a second one-word paragraph: "Bust?" The third paragraph was a shade longer: "This is the question." Stuffy loved...
...Same Shade of Scarlett...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
...distinction. And there are some heart-stirring shots of quilted green land and shimmering lakes, of whaling boats and silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic and Essex. Audiences will also learn about tobacco-possibly more than they care to. Item: those acres of flimsy shade-tobacco tents (which don't quite obscure the dedicated dalliance of Troy and girl at the fadeout) are made of cheesecloth, which filters sunlight and raises the temperature around the plants by 15 degrees...