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...LYNDON BUFF. Lyndon Johnson is the hardest-working President of the United States in the 20th century...
...years ago, after a long, futile debate with friends about who was the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, Miami's Murry Woroner, 43, a full-time producer of radio specials and part-time sports buff, decided to take the question to the nearest modern oracle: a computer. He asked 250 boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings...
...clinics in underdeveloped countries. Berman met Humphrey in 1954 when he was called to testify on public health problems before a Senate subcommittee, of which the then Minnesota Senator was a member. Impressed with his presentation, Humphrey asked him to dinner. The two became close friends. A modern art buff with an impressive collection of De Koonings, Pollocks and Rothkos, Berman enjoys explaining his paintings to the Vice President, who likes abstract art but admits that he does not understand it. In 1965, when Berman was between careers, Humphrey asked him to become his personal physician and adviser. Berman immediately...
...Yorkers to stick their heads through holes in a "mile-long" strip of fabric and parade in tandem around the block. "You see," he exulted. "We are changing the landscape of New York!" Inside another garment, titled 100 in an Airplane, he hoped that participants would strip to the buff and sit on the floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes a far less interesting shape." Alas, when Byars first staged the event last week, he waited in the cockpit of the airplane, clad only...
Though he has always been a poetry buff, McCarthy only began writing his own about four years ago, as a "kind of escape." He will scribble a few lines in longhand at odd moments in planes or hotel rooms, then type them out at home and file them away in a looseleaf notebook. Knocking on McCarthy's door during this year's presidential campaign, Paul Gorman, one of his speechwriters, found that the candidate was too busy to talk. With a book entitled Mammals of North America in front of him, the Senator was writing a poem called...