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...good Lord have mercy on you," said Lyndon Johnson-and, under the circumstances, the benediction seemed appropriate. Johnson was speaking to the man he had just nominated as head of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver, who will be the first Negro to sit in the Cabinet. Weaver, 58, will preside over the Federal Government's first comprehensive attack on the problems of metropolitan areas, which now contain 70% of the nation's people, are expected to double in population by the end of the century. If he takes his job seriously, even...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). William Holden and Clifton Webb in Satan Never Sleeps, the story of a priest caught behind the Bamboo Curtain. Color...
...Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton...
Late in 1960, a mutual friend introduced Clifton to President-elect John Kennedy, and the two talked for 45 minutes. At the end of the session, Kennedy said: "We may be seeing more of each other." The day before Kennedy's inauguration, he named Clifton to be his military aide...
...that job, Clifton handled security papers coming into the White House, gave Kennedy and Johnson their daily intelligence briefings, acted as liaison man with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in charge of the "football" (the code bag required by the President if he were to order a nuclear attack), and in scores of other ways ably served two Presidents. His successor: Air Force Major James U. Cross...