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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Throughout the '50s, he maintained his contacts with Political Mentor Johnson, working behind the scenes on campaigns, lining up financial backing among his oil-industry friends and serving as Johnson's liaison man with local Democratic leaders. At the 1960 Democratic Convention, he headed Johnson's bid for the presidential nomination. When L.B.J. became John F. Kennedy's Vice President, Kennedy made Connally Secretary of the Navy...
...place, with dim lights, rock music and girls. Every Wednesday night is "soul night," on which some 500 sailors, 80% of them black, dance to the music of the Exquisite Diatonics and treat their dates to 40¢ drinks. Bachelor officers don psychedelic sports shirts and casual sweaters to meet local girls at their own club and shake to such groups as the Swingers or the Sounds of Time...
Plainly, the road toward East-West detente is not exactly a high-speed expressway. It is vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
...consortium of students and faculty members from Hampshire and the nearby campuses of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Massachusetts. The money was to pay expenses while the consortium decided on a social-improvement project for the Connecticut River valley and enlisted the aid of local firms in carrying it out. "It is right," Rockefeller added, "for older people to be pushed...
Very cagily−since by this time I was certain that Howard knew every detail about my every move−I booked to Phoenix not on TWA but on United. When I got there, I rented not a Hertz or an Avis but a local firm's car. I drove to the Luce home not by established routes but by enormous circles. Then I drove to the back of the circular driveway and hid my rented Ford behind a large lilac bush...