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Brown's forward line is awesome: Left wing Vic deJong is a masterful dribbler and shooter, who was relegated to the second All-Ivy team as a sophomore last year only because Harvard winger Charlie Njoku led the loop in scoring...
After a formal White House dinner, the New York City Center Light Opera Company regaled the 180 guests in the East Room with songs from Broadway musicals-including Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, a number from Guys and Dolls sung by that inveterate crap-shooter and horse player, Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Not to be outdone, Imelda rose during a reception for the U.S. President at the Shoreham Hotel the following night and sang Because of You in her native Tagalog, aiming every inflection at a radiant Lyndon Johnson...
...rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier's man-in-the-Pen-tagon and the Chief of Staff's trouble-shooter within the ranks, the burly (6 ft. 190 lbs.), heavy-jawed infantry veteran will thus represent the entire Army, much as its 4,700 lesser sergeants major* represent units ranging from battalions to field armies. Said General Johnson: "He will be my eyes and ears...
...Strangers in the Night, for example, as a song about a homosexual pickup), and the Cleans, who would argue that Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned is a call to take part in a Mississippi freedom march. To the Dirties, such songs as Straight Shooter (junkie argot for someone who takes heroin intravenously) and You've Got Me High are, of course, fraught with double entendre. Scanning for hidden meanings, in fact, has become something of an in-group game for many teenagers. Take the ditty I Love You Drops. "It's probably pretty...
...journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Fleming, who has a reputation as an abrasive straight shooter, was a newspaper and magazine correspondent before joining ABC in 1957. He will conduct the White House's twice-daily briefings, handle logistical details of press planning. Moyers, whose regular title is "special assistant to the President," will continue to supervise overall White House news production while being freed for additional duties. Explained the President: "Bill will continue to go wherever the ball is and work wherever we need him. It may be a personnel matter. This afternoon...