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...emerging into public view after weeks of hard-working seclusion, Lyndon Johnson seemed at once confident and uncommonly circumspect. He appeared determined not to shroud his movements in the usual, much-criticized secrecy, and he obviously tried to keep his utterances restrained but natural...
Donora's doctors were soon besieged by coughing, wheezing patients complaining of shortness of breath, running noses, smarting eyes, sore throats and nausea. During the next four days, before a heavy rain washed away the menacing shroud, 5,910 of the town's 14,000 residents became ill. Twenty persons-and an assortment of dogs, cats and canaries-died...
Machine-Gun Bursts. The President's principal preoccupation was the impending State of the Union address and the budget message. So determined was he to shroud the drafting of the State of the Union speech in secrecy that he waited until week's end to announce when he would deliver it-right after Congress convenes this week, in a night-time appearance designed to draw a large television audience...
...whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well...
Julie, in short, is something else-in Hollywood, but not with it. Unencumbered by the cotton-candy fantasy life in which most stars invariably shroud themselves, she has stayed resolutely honest and unspoiled. She is an actress, as Librettist Alan Jay Lerner once remarked, who achieved stardom "with nothing to offer but talent, industry and an uncorrupted heart...