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Eliminating Middlemen. After flying next day to Wilmington, where he was mobbed by a crowd of 70,000, the President returned to Washington for his second formal press conference of the month. Making his announcements briskly, answering barbed questions with even-tempered directness, Johnson also bared a sardonic vein that recalled Harry Truman at his crustiest. Equating his own unpopularity with "prophets of doom" in the press, the President crowed: "I always get refreshed and I gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Ezra's Way | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Selected as assistant managers were: James H. Garvin Jr. '68 of Eliot House and Wilmington, Del., treasurer; Peter C. Patrikis '68 of Adams House and Swampscott, concert manager: John J. Finley '68 of Lowell House and Falls Chuch, Va., publicity manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Officers Elected | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

With their Avco 1790 computer humming through thousands of responses on a quiet street in Wilmington, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg seem anxious to get on to other things. For instance, there are the 200 page movie script and 30 capsule plots for a T.V. situation comedy that Crump's roommate, John P. Bochner '66, has written on the match theme. Ginsburg is Bochner's agent, and he is now trying to get both the movie and the T.V. series produced. From the "fabulous contacts". Tarr says were established throughout the country this summer, the corporation is beginning to inundate...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Operation Match | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

...Firestone, in 1932 conceived a low-pressure pneumatic tractor tire that proved a major boon to farming, during World War II developed hard-rubber tracks for U.S. and British tanks, and a foam plastic float used to transport vehicles ashore in the Okinawa landing; of chronic lung disease; in Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1965 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...JANE WILLS Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1965 | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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