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...finest Johnson tradition with 2,400 guests due to watch the ribbon cutting, then file into Memorial Stadium for a barbecue. Invited guests include President Nixon and Vice President Agnew, but not War Critic, Senator William Fulbright, or Former Press Secretary, George Reedy, whose book The Twilight of the Presidency reportedly offended L.BJ. Lyndon Johnson may belong to history, but some grudges apparently...
...increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their kind," he says, "we face the prospect of a genetic twilight. But if we let them die or suffer when we can save or help them, we face the certainty of a moral twilight...
...creating life itself. In 1967 Stanford University's Arthur Kornberg synthesized in a test tube a single strand of DNA that was actually able to make a duplicate of itself. Kornberg's "creation" was only a copy of a virus, a coated bit of genetic material that occupies a twilight zone between the living and inanimate. But many scientists have become convinced that they may eventually be able to create functioning, living cells...
There is talk of doing a television special Christmas Day linking Washington and Westminster Abbey with President Nixon and Queen Elizabeth taking part in a religious program. Press Secretary for President Johnson, George Reedy, has written a book, The Twilight of the Presidency, suggesting that we may need a King to relieve the burdens of the Presidency...
...airily admits that she agreed to a role in that $10 million bomb, The Adventurers, "purely for money." She adds: "Selling out wasn't as hard as I thought it would be." Anyway, making movies "is a layaway plan for my forties, a means of financing my twilight years...