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...congressional reputation, on the other hand, shadowed everything he did in the White House. The press recorded his achievements with "dutiful appreciation," writes McPherson, "but as Grand Prix drivers might appreciate a good tractor." He goes on to cite a typical but unfamiliar example of Johnson cultivating his political spinach. L.B.J. once asked a well-known black leader what he was going to tell the press after his visit to the White House. "Just that we talked over some problems of mutual concern," was the answer. "You can't do that," said the President, worried that...
...first press luncheon by asking a waitress in Mandarin to bring him green tea. But the Chinese proved courteously unenlightening to everyone. "A question about what happened to Deputy Premier Lin Piao," wrote Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, "produces a polite reminder to eat your spinach...
...decades, the trend in our cover design, for instance, has been to reduce the frame and allow more emphasis on the art. The ornate scrollwork, or "spinach," that once decorated our covers gave way to thin black lines within the red rectangle (which, incidentally, was preceded by border stripes in different colors; an experimental orange was something less than a success after it first appeared on St. Patrick's Day, 1926, and a compensatory green was also short-lived). The thin lines were in turn eliminated. Now we are going one step further, reducing the red border by three...
...conscience-stricken nation. "I must be a reflection they'll want to look at." As his trial began, Calley, says to himself, "I had a greater responsibility than the prosecutor." Every time television cameras turned on him, Calley thought: "I've got a big piece of spinach between my teeth...
...years there have been only two Bobby's in NHL hockey, Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, and they have done for hockey what Buster Brown did for shoes. The B's without Orr would be like Popeye without his spinach, and picturing the Hawks without Hull is like imagining a trio of Huey, Luey, and Garfinkel Duck. But Bruins coach Tom Johnson announced the unbelievable after last night's game with the Canadiens: Bobby Orr and Dallas Smith must send their skate sizes to the Hawks' equipment manager before the Stanley Cup playoffs. In return, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Dennis...