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Lyndon Johnson took a notion to press the flesh with the folks in Omaha and Des Moines last week. Invited along were Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party...
Casual Joke. In Germany, the pictures stirred immediate suspicions. For one thing, the alleged Nazis sported shaggy locks, a grooming no genuine Hitler youth would approve of. For another, a girl wore a Nazi party arm band, a decoration never permitted the weaker sex. And there was a package of French cigarettes on the table. Whoever heard of a Nazi indulging a decadent French taste? Sensing a phony, Munich reporters soon smoked...
...heard from in years suddenly began to write and I love that, you know. I even had a letter from someone I hadn't seen since Manila in '44." On the subject of his traditional hat he says, "When I was a kid in New York everyone over 21 wore a hat, unless you were a creep." And when he thinks about the recent movie offers and his agent's maneuverings, the shuddering reaction is, "I never had two nickels to put together and when she calls to say she's turned down $100,000 it packs...
Switch or Lose. At the convention, Rolvaag delegates wore buttons proclaiming "I'd rather fight than switch" -to which Keith partisans' buttons replied: "I'd rather switch than lose." Though Keith led from the outset, he fell short of the required two-thirds majority until the 20th ballot. Humphrey, scrupulously neutral during the convention, came out of seclusion to embrace Keith, noted: "You can't live forever on the older generation...
Trumpets blared. President Sukarno entered the Bung Karno Sports Palace and strode down the red-carpeted aisle with an honor guard of military police. He wore one of his crisp white uniforms with gold braid. On all sides of him, applauding ceremoniously, stood the 546 members of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress, his nation's highest legislative body. Ratna Sari Dewi, his lovely young Japanese wife, smiled down from the diplomatic box. When he mounted the platform and took his seat, three military aides appeared with orange juice, tea, and his eyeglasses. When he rose to speak...