Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head to foot, his nostrils sucking in at a polyethylene laundry...
...emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson. Fortnight ago Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, paid a call at the White House and announced President Johnson's blessing for an L.B.J. hat-a lightweight model with a somewhat narrower brim than the five-gallon number...
...Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense of his record...
...will lobby against attempts to rob him of authority or to pack the board. But Patman senses a widespread feeling that the whole Federal Reserve needs an overhaul, and he is confident of bucking through at least a few of his proposals. Much will depend upon whether his fellow Texan in the White House decides to press hard for the changes. Lyndon Johnson shares Patman's Populist dislike of tight credit, and is not as close to Bill Martin as John Kennedy was. The tip-off as to where he stands in the fight may come when he selects...
What can the U.S. do? Drawls Texan Mann: "Our job is to convince the Latin Americans that their interests lie parallel to ours-not because of sentiment, but in their own self-interest. Democracy is a tie in these cases, economics is a tie, and Christianity is another tie. The total of these ties is where our interest lies, and when these ties are strong enough, no Marxist can separate...