Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's life became Jenkins' life. He was a stockholder in the LBJ Co., and its treasurer until December 1963. He handled many of Lyndon's personal and financial affairs, looked after the lobbyists for him, kept tab on the Texas delegation in Congress. He named one of his six children Lyndon, and his daughter Beth, now at Marquette University, became one of Luci Baines Johnson's closest friends...
...program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof at $165,000) for the university. For après la classe, it has a swimming pool, golf course and tennis courts-plus a lake for fishing and a bar for socializing, both well-stocked. Businessese is fluently...
Once Royal Crown proved that diet drinks were no fad, the big bottlers pushed diet drinks of their own. Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. brought to market no fewer than eight diet drinks, from coffee flavor to ginger ale. Coca-Cola launched Tab, and Pepsi-Cola brought out Patio Diet Cola. Pepsi President Donald Kendall recently decided to take advantage of the $30 million spent advertising Pepsi this year, has begun to phase out Patio Diet in favor of a new drink called Diet-Pepsi, which is being promoted with the slogan "Enjoy Pepsi either...
...Metropolitan Airport in a ten-passenger Air Force JetStar. Where was Air Force One, the giant, four-jet Boeing liner the President usually rides? Well, explained an aide, on purely political trips like this one the Air Force bills the Democratic National Commit tee for presidential transportation. The tab for Air Force One is $2,350 an hour, for the JetStar only...
...Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France and the famed Hôtel Crillon, cost about...