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...partisans tried and failed to get Texas admitted to the Democratic conference of Western states). In public, Johnson pooh-poohs the notion that a Southerner can't win. "Hell," he snorted recently, "Jack Garner was on a national ticket in 1936, and the Democrats took 'em all except Maine and Vermont." But Franklin Roosevelt was on the topside of that ticket, and times were different. Texas is still Texas, and Johnson is still a son of the South, and even his civil rights bill is not likely to change the label on the L.B.J. package...
...Truman Administration, and a compliment from a Roman Catholic priest: "Now there's a man I like." Philip Graham, president and publisher of the Washington Post, agrees. "There isn't a single reason why Lyndon Johnson should be President of the United States," he says, "except that he's the best man." Not the least of Johnson's admirers is his wife, Lady Bird, who recently finished a cram course in public speaking and is effectively demonstrating the results at a series of ladies' gatherings in Texas (most recently at a Dallas Kaffeeklatsch featuring...
...finding new activist outlets, and Harvard is only one of many colleges and universities where this sort of thing has occurred. The Woolworth’s pickets have appeared not only at such perennially crusading institutions as Swarthmore, but at Brown, Vassar, Smith, Hamilton, and other schools where nothing except an occasional pantyraid has ever mobilized the entire campus...
...Louis says "there is no place in the world except Cuba where the Negro can go in the wintertime with absolutely no discrimination." Jack Paar (who paid his own way down) deplores the "untruthful things I've read about what was happening in Cuba. This man Castro is beloved by these people." Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called the Cuban revolution "the most original I have known" and dismissed the U.S. as a "headless nation...
...Except for such dim traces, Dilmun vanished centuries ago. But just after World War II, a scholarly young Englishman, Geoffrey Bibby, visited Bahrein on oil business, and was fascinated by 100,000 burial mounds on the island's north end. Under them were T-shaped stone chambers with the remains of a single person in each. Before he could investigate further, Bibby left Bahrein. Later he married a Danish girl, settled in Denmark, and worked his way up to the post of director of oriental antiquities in Aarhus University's prehistoric museum...