Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muzak in Every Room. Back in Washington, Lady Bird set up headquarters in The Elms, a Norman mansion in Washington's Spring Valley section (previous owner: Capital Party Giver Perle Mesta). With Daughters Lynda Bird (now 19) and Lucy Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...
...Nile will start rising next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the surrounding desert from Aswan to the Sudan. Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari...
...classic example took place in Los Angeles' sprawling San Fernando Valley, a municipal crazy quilt that has managed to absorb almost 1,000,000 densely packed residents without turning into a cohesive city. The Valley's loudest voice is a giveaway newspaper, the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying...
...would never mention Khrushchev," says Editor Ferdinand Mendenhall of the Valley Green Sheet, "unless he drops a bomb on Van Nuys Boulevard." The Decatur-De Kalb News has some 6,000 "associate editors"-all of whom paid $2 for the title, and many of whom submit stories to the paper. In Topsfield, Mass., the local school bus driver, an energetic amateur photographer, snaps all the pictures for Topsfield's giveaway paper, the Tri-Town Transcript...
...income, presumably, enabled Baker and his wife Dorothy, who has an $11,000-a-year job with a Senate committee, to move recently into a $125,000 house near the home of Bobby's friend and longtime Senate sponsor, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, in Washington's Spring Valley section...