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Hopping over to Texas two days later, Kennedy landed in a drizzle at the L.B.J. ranch, was met by Lyndon Baines Johnson outfitted in a Texas rancher's cream colored leather jacket, tan Stetson, tight pants and cowboy boots. Johnson seemed crestfallen when his leader, in grey pinstripe Ivy League, politely but firmly declined to put on a five-gallon Stetson before photographers. But L.B.J. quickly picked up the pace, hauled Kennedy off for a bumpy inspection tour in a Lincoln convertible while the press and Secret Service men trailed unhappily behind. The President-elect peered through the windshield...
...Churchill Downs last week. Only one stable in U.S. turf annals has racked up such mountainous winnings in one year of racing (Calumet Farm has turned the trick six times). In Louisville, Whitney and fourth wife Mary had had high hopes of cracking the million mark with their grey filly, Bright Silver. Whitney was short of his goal by only $3,399, and the winner's purse in the race was $3,900. But Bright Silver, the favorite, uncooperatively came in sixth. As the week wore on, two of Whitney's horses placed, picked up an additional...
...when his health seemed excellent and he smilingly scotched the sort of morbid rumor that forever comes up in the career of an aging giant. Of course he was not dead. The lines of his face had deepened and the skin had toughened. There was less gloss and more grey in his hair. But this was like seasonal change on a mountain. The basic topography was nearly permanent. He was, after all, Clark Gable...
...this melange of cliches, however, there is one stereotype that is always' delightful: Jean Gabin. After the initial shock of seeing him without grey hair and enormous bags under his eyes (in this condition he bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Spencer Tracy) one quickly realizes that the head hood is unchanging. Gabin emerges from his cores with his usual aplomb and his gloriously rumpled deadpan intact. He is the only criminal around who can slap everybody in sight, including two lovely ladies, without ever appearing to be anything more than a pompous but lovable businessman a little out of sorts...
Clearly shaping up in the G.O.P.'s grey mourning after was a three-cornered battle for party power. The combatants: Vice President Richard Nixon, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater...