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...manner as First Lady created for her an admiring constituency untainted by L.B.J.'s problems. So it was a festive homecoming for Lady Bird last week as some 500 of her friends gathered in Washington at a luncheon launching her new book, A White House Diary (Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...offset the tax reductions. Heath's government is pruning the welfare state in an even more thorough manner than did Winston Churchill when he returned to power in 1951 after six years of Labor rule. The new budget eliminates funds for the nationalization of the ports, halts grants for industry and the building of tourist hotels and will begin phasing out aid for London commuter rail lines. "Our object," explained Barber, "is to widen the area within which industry rather than government will take decisions...
...Jewish mother (Lillian Adams) who chides her son the doctor about the expensive "opticals" on his "fancy-schmancy" Plymouth is bound to offend every Jewish mother from Barbra Streisand to Golda Meir. Winston's "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" campaign verges on sadism. But then, unless R.J. Reynolds can prove between now and Jan. 1 that cigarette smoking may not be hazardous to your health, all cigarette ads will be off the air. Except for the vignettes showing Benson & Hedges' longer cigarettes forever getting caught in beards, clashing cymbals and elevator doors, none...
...Philip Hoff lost out in his attempt to become the first Democratic Senator from Vermont in over a hundred years. Incumbent Sen. Winston Prouty is expected to take 57 per cent of the vote in a campaign including such tactics as cartoonist Al Capp's racist appeal (unsolicited by Prouty) on the Senator's behalf...
...obvious reasons, Lieut. Flap was immediately mustered out by newspapers in Winston-Salem, N.C., Richmond, and Tampa, Fla. Stars and Stripes' reasons were just as obvious, but much more labored. "Flap wasn't even a good caricature, but simply in bad taste," said Managing Editor Howard C. Peterson. "Negro soldiers aren't like that." Added Editor-in-Chief Colonel William V. Koch: "Besides, the Army regulation wouldn't allow a soldier or officer to grow a goatee. And Flap...