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Charles Evans Hughes once went to bed thinking he was President of the U.S., and woke up to discover that he was just another citizen. Carl Michael Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox went to Puerto Rico at the end of the 1967 baseball season, apparently certain of winning unanimous selection as the American League's Most Valuable Player. And why not? Outfielder Yastrzemski led the league in batting (.326) and RBls (121); he was tied for the lead in home runs (44), and had personally powered the Red Sox-who finished ninth in 1966-to the American League...
...Bird Johnson, 23, to her mama's bedroom door at three o'clock that August morning. When Mama wasn't there, she crept into her daddy's bedroom. "Who is it?" asked Lady Bird, waking up with a start, and in a moment the President woke up too. Then, as they guessed what Lynda Bird was driving at, the Johnsons hauled their eldest daughter into bed with them and listened to her tell the news of her decision to marry Chuck Robb. Now the story has been broken in all its homey detail by the Washington...
Quick Surgery. At about the same time, Harvey Karp, who had joined Stone in a number of successful real es tate ventures, also left his job at Pathe Laboratories and took his family to Eu rope. "One morning in Rome," recalls Karp, "I woke up and couldn't think of a single new thing to do that...
...mainly as an anti-Communist with a long border with Russia. For ten unremarkable years, he lived in luxurious disdain of the welfare of his countrymen. Then along came a crusty old nationalist named Mohammed Mossadegh, who as Premier nearly overthrew the Shah in 1953 and, in the process, woke him up. "Suddenly, I realized that we were not only standing still but losing ground," says the Shah. "We had to develop...
...woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters...