Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secrecy was again the order of the day at week's end when Johnson flew out of Washington, his destination unrevealed until shortly before he boarded Air Force One. The first stop was Houston, where the President toured the Manned Spacecraft Center. Next, he dropped in at Beaumont, Texas, for a fund-raising dinner, then on to Marietta, Ga., to watch Lockheed Aircraft roll out the world's largest aircraft, the C-5A Galaxy flying freighter (wing span: 223 ft., height: 65 ft.), which can lift 21 times more cargo than any current U.S. air transport. "This would...
...Next stop was the opening reception of the Governors' Conference. Rockefeller and Wife Happy made a suitably late entrance at 8 p.m. and immediately dominated the scene. Newsmen and politicians alike scrambled toward the couple as if Rockefeller had not only announced but won. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey got lacerated by a wild camera. Rockefeller gallantly dabbed the blood from Democrat Dempsey's brow with his handkerchief...
...they are won." The spectacle of Nixon whomping Harold Stassen from New Hampshire to Nebraska would hardly electrify the voters. Another possible problem for Nixon is the effect of last week's events on Ronald Reagan's position. The Californian's backers believe that Rockefeller can stop Nixon-something Romney could not do-and thus revive Reagan's chances as the compromise conservative choice of the convention...
...President's cardinal rule has been to treat fellow Republicans as lovingly as an election year will allow. He praised Romney's vigor as a campaigner; he also did his bit to debunk the stalking-horse theory. Romney's withdrawal, he said, "was not designed to stop Nixon. It was designed to save Romney from a defeat...
...trouble is settled, now we go back to Cuba," signaled the Cuban master. Speaking over a bullhorn and through an interpreter, he explained that the three mutineers were now his prisoners. Powerless to stop him, the Coast Guard had no choice but to let him go. Two days later, it even had to intervene to prevent the Julio from being hijacked by an armed yacht dispatched secretly to intercept it by a Cuban exile organization in Miami. The U.S., of course, got no thanks from Havana. Raging against "this new imperialistic Yankee aggression," the Castro government charged that "Yankee warships...