Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very sensible answer," said L.B.J. "He's 79, and he looks 59, and he never had but one job in his life-engineer for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company." Johnson then introduced Lynda Bird's fiancé: "Ensign Bernie Rosenbach...
...Boston, Chicago and Detroit, in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin. Physicist Berkner's center in Dallas is off to a $25 million start as a "mecca for men of science and technology." By 1975, it aims to have 1,000 researchers working with Southwestern universities to breed 2,000 Ph.D.s yearly...
Still, most Southern Republican leaders are determined to do or die with Goldwater. Insists South Carolina's G.O.P. State Chairman Drake Edens: "Nothing has really changed. With no attempt to disparage President Kennedy, a dedicated New England liberal has simply been replaced by a dedicated Southwestern liberal. Long before November 1964, President Johnson will have dispelled all wishful thinking on the part of Southerners that he is any kind of conservative Southerner...
...season embellished with "dollar night" concerts for as many as 25,000 in the Sam Houston Coliseum. This year, it will even venture east for a concert tour of 20 cities, grandly climaxed in March with a New York performance in Philharmonic Hall-the first such coup by any Southwestern orchestra...
...least ten acres of land and markets at least $50 worth of farm goods a year counts as a "farmer." But that term includes everybody from the Southern mill hand who grows a field of cotton as a sideline, netting $70 a year on ten acres, to the Southwestern cotton baron who manages his empire from an air-conditioned office, netting $65,000 a year on 1,000 acres. The Agriculture Department offers the mill hand and the baron the same support price on their cotton. A farm policy that treats rich farmers, poor farmers and part-time farmers...