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...legislation he had sought rolled in a steady stream from Capitol Hill last week, an ebullient Lyndon Johnson invited just about everyone in Washington to "come on down to the signin'." In all, he signed five new bills and dispensed no less than 600 souvenir pens worth $1.80 each. At one ceremony a sweating aide lugged the pens around in a market basket. For the throngs of Congressmen, Governors, mayors, foreign ambassadors and civil servants who turned out for the various ceremonies, the President also had a thesaurus of superlatives for each new law and ever more dazzling visions...
Passing out souvenir pens by the passel, Johnson explained that he had hastened to sign the bill "because we just cannot overemphasize and we cannot overdramatize and we cannot overreact to this nation's growing problem of water supply." He used the northeastern drought as an example of how bad things can get, said the long-term goal must be the "drought-proofing" of metropolitan areas by desalinizing sea water (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...laps, became the first foreigner to win the Indy 500 since Dario Resta in 1916. There was nothing remotely close, either, about South Africa: wearing a corset to ease the pain from a slipped disk in his back (souvenir of an Alpine snowball fight), he became the first man ever to top 100 m.p.h. on East London's tricky, twisting track, coasted home a comfortable 31 sec. in front. At Spa last month, thunderstorms made the trip a little dicier than Jim expected ("It was damn dangerous out there"), but he still scored his fourth-straight victory...
...obviously reflected the pique of Charles de Gaulle. The banquet was in honor of the 150th anniversary of Waterloo, and le général does not agree with the British that Waterloo is a part of history that needs commemorating. Encouraged by Waterloo's restaurateurs, souvenir hawkers and the local tourist office, the British, West German and Dutch embassies in Belgium had planned a spirited parade and re-enactment of the battle on the original site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' William I in 1815). De Gaulle...
...SOUVENIR FROM QAM, by Marc Connelly. With a diaphanous novel set in the never-never kingdom of Sajjid, Playwright Connelly (The Green Pastures) makes his entertaining entrance into fiction...