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...leaders, studying the political weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson-for-President headquarters had been established in a twelve-room suite in Austin by Speaker Sam Rayburn; its 14 employees and volunteer workers (including Elliott Roosevelt Jr., 23) were busy handing out campaign literature and Johnson lapel buttons (a brass cowboy hat embossed with L.B.J...
...shall fight for our existence, and we shall survive." He took his seat beside his wife Betsie, not noticing David Pratt, a wispy, 54-year-old Transvaal farmer in green tweeds, who clambered briskly up the concrete steps behind the Prime Minister, flashing his exposition-committee-man's lapel badge to get past the husky detectives...
...Ladysmith, the Kennedy motorcade slowed down as it got near a group of cheering nuns and postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment of the green...
...Paar calls and wires poured into NBC headquarters. Mickey Rooney, who had only recently been involved in a liquid feud with Paar (TIME, Dec. 14), offered Jack a job in a Rooney-owned tire factory. A political-button manufacturer put aside his campaign slogans to produce a lapel ornament that read "Come Back Jack." At Bowie race track, an in-and-outer named Randy-paar, after Jack's daughter, got into the spirit of things and paid...
...Deerfield, Ill., a velvet-lapel commuter suburb of Chicago, the citizenry took extraordinary measures to keep twelve Negro families out of town. Ostensibly, the voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values...