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Johnson asked that Mrs. Kennedy stand beside him during the swearing-in to emphasize the continuity of the U.S. presidency. Jackie obliged, but Manchester emphasized that the gulf was now so wide that none of the photos taken of the ceremony by White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton showed "the presence of a single male Kennedy aide." Indeed, Manchester says that Mary Gallagher, Mrs. Kennedy's personal secretary, watched Kenneth O'Donnell "pacing the corridor like a caged tiger, his hands clapped over his ears as though to block the oath...
...oldest of five children of Norwegian immigrants who settled in Stoughton, Wis., Romnes is so soft-spoken and persuasive an executive that colleagues sometimes refer to him as "the Mild Viking." But the Viking has a firm hand when necessary, and he may need it as he steers A.T. & T. through some rough sailing. Through 23 subsidiary companies, A.T. & T. controls 85% of all U.S. telephone communications, most long-distance operations, and an increasing share of the fast-growing data-transmission business. It remains a private monopoly largely because of rate accommodations with the Federal Communications Commission and with...
...which point it occured to this porter that his roommate possesses ten-foot blowgun (for reasons best known to himself, natch), with which he could probably knock out the lightbulb sitting on the steps of Grays. From Stoughton it would be a snap...
...just so happened that this technological triumph--brain over brawn, you might say (you probably couldn't do any better if, like many a son of a Stoughton by that juncture, you were nine beers gone) --stirred the minds and hearts of all the participants. Caught up as they were in the adolescent joy of it all, they nevertheless recognized in the incident a glimmer of the intellectual plunk Harvard was said to cherish...
...they stand around only recognizing. Gestures of peace were made between Holworthy and Stoughton. Beers were shared, Arms were flung over alien shoulders. The rope was neatly coiled and placed beside Stoughton. The Geistgauge registered Ponca City, Oklahoma...