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Lyndon Johnson met these vagaries headon, but the outcome of the collision cannot be known for months. He proposed for the year beginning July 1, $186.1 billion in "outlays"-a term covering expenditures and net lending under the new budget format-but this and other projections rested on expectations of a degree of cooperation from Congress that will most probably be withheld and of only a modest rise in Viet Nam expenses, which are really impossible to predict...
Carefully following the original Red format, the two Look senior editors-Democrats both-grouped Johnson's sayings under 30 categories such as "The Long March Toward the Great Society" and "Humble Origins of the People's Servant." Under the chapter head "Humility and Self-Criticism," there is a meaningful blank space. All told, Shepherd and Wren gathered about 300 quotations from Johnson-his folksiest and most fulsome. Simon & Schuster, which plans to publish the $2 booklet in March with a limp red plastic cover similar to Mao's, reports keen early bookstore interest. Some facets of Lyndonthink...
...format calls for an announcer to read off a list of job openings for anything from a $64-a-week busboy to a $200-a-week accountant. Some offers are for temporary jobs, such as the recent call in Chicago for a $40-a-day bodyguard. Next, personnel managers and employment counselors discuss opportunities or show films on such subjects as apprenticeship programs and interview techniques. The kicker is of ten a success story - a former viewer tells how he got his job as a result of watching the program. Repeatedly during the broadcast, the phone number of the nearest...
...prostitution in Never on Sunday, drug addiction in Man with a Golden Arm. Both films were considered too hot to handle two years ago. Following the lead of Bell Telephone, Xerox and Hallmark, an increasing number of sponsors bunch or juggle the sequence of their commercials to suit the format of a show. And in upcoming months, the programmers are preparing the TV, debuts of such film stars as Doris Day, William Holden, Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn, as well as more specials by such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal, who have returned...
...joined the game late, but even so was caught up in the excitement immediately. The format of the game was explained: first each team makes a policy statement -- "action choice" -- to Control, in which no lies are allowed; then a world TV statement, in which truth is optional; and finally negotiations, during which the teams can talk to each other...