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Arrayed in gold pajamas and a brown silk robe, the nation's most closely watched convalescent leaned back in a green reclining chair and made a rare admission. "Very frankly," said Lyndon Johnson, "this is a good time to get a little rest. I have been rather tired for some time...
...other eight, labelled the Harvard University sophomores, consists of John Crocker, Curt Canning, Ed Lawson, Paul Silk, Chris Lunding, Andy Larkin, Ian Gardiner, Paul Neskow, and cox Paul Hoffman...
...ones and twos they came, until the galleries were filled with the festive rustling of satin and silk. A wave of perfume penetrated to the farthest corners of the House-but with none of the advertised effects on the male of the species. For despite earlier assurances that the members would be allowed to quit in time to take their wives to Lyndon Johnson's Salute to the 89th Congress, their host had other plans for the House. From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on the evening of the party came word that the Representatives should stay in session until they...
...Democrats nominated a feisty, folksy accountant, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59. In the general election he will face the strongest Republican candidate for mayor in a generation: Manhattan Congressman' John Vliet Lindsay, 43, a Yale-educated lawyer with a liberal voting record and impressive support in a "silk stocking" Manhattan district in which registered Republicans are in the minority...
...chemist and 1953 Nobel prizewinner, who fathered the age of plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany...