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Noting that King Bhumibol of Thailand had visited Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard as a child, Lyndon Johnson allowed to the monarch during his recent visit to the White House that "some members of my Cabinet-some members of my staff-have been known to disappear into the fogs of the Vineyard for long stretches of time. Some of them even claim that the fog obscures not only land and sea but also the sound of the White House telephone." Added L.B.J.: "Secretary Katzenbach, I am carefully observing your reaction...
Johnson was presumably remembering the time of the Watts riots when he tried to reach Katzenbach, then the Attorney General, only to learn that he was weekending on the Vineyard. Then he called for McNamara-and he was on the Vineyard too, a guest of the Katzenbachs. In needling Katzenbach, L.B.J., who likes to keep his aides close at hand, was rubbing salt into old saddle sores-Katzenbach's longest "vacation" since coming to government has been four days...
Deadly Vassar Girls. Kingman spent his summers sailing off Martha's Vineyard, became so skilled that in 1935 and 1937 he scored clean sweeps to win the Prince of Wales Cup in "Acadia"-class international competition in Nova Scotia. He is still an enthusiastic boat man who, notes a friend, "minimizes his tacks by coming closer to the white water than other sailors will" and is co-owner of a 30-ft. ketch, Auriga, with Williams President John Sawyer. Brewster sees a link between sailing and running a university, contends wryly that "there is always the infinite capacity...
Before the start of his freshman year at Yale, Brewster asked advice on courses and teachers from a Martha's Vineyard neighbor, Yale History Professor A. Whitney Griswold. It was the start of a long friendship that grew closer when Brewster became chairman of the Yale Daily News, found Griswold a stimulating source of information about the university and a spirited conversationalist on politics. "We had a common sense of the ridiculous and the absurd," Brewster says...
...Pope can establish articles of faith. These must come from Scripture." Instead of offering him Biblical proof, Pope Leo X issued a bull demanding Luther's recanting-on pain of excommunication-that began: "Arise, O Lord, and judge thy cause. A wild boar has invaded thy vineyard...