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Gathered together, the professional Ivy Leaguers wouldn't be enough for a good pickup game of touch football...
...anyone doubted that Lady Bird Johnson was in dead earnest about her beautification program, he had only to watch her pace. Having presided over three White House conferences on the subject, toured the District of Columbia to plant flowers, participated in an anti-litter campaign called Potomac Pickup Day and made two trips outside of Washington-all since February-she might have taken a breather from beauty for a while. Not Lady Bird. She not only visited two more cities last week-planting trees, condemning litter and extolling beauty-but plans to talk beauty to a meeting of the Associated...
...nightmare began Friday before Labor Day, when Boggs and Dixie stopped at a roadside park on U.S. 9 outside Luling, Texas, in a car he had stolen in Houston two days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled...
...Meanwhile, Boggs and Dixie had driven Flory's pickup truck, with a .22-cal. revolver in the glove compartment, to Oklahoma where they abandoned it, kept the gun and began hitchhiking. They were picked up by two Newport, N.H., men, Robert Willis, 23, and Halvor Johnson, 28 who were driving in Johnson's black Simca to Los Angeles to look for work...
...astronauts themselves withstood the strains of flight and re-entry splendidly. Though they had been cramped into a half-sitting, half-lying position for eight days, they managed to do a couple of deep knee bends in the pickup helicopter, hopped nimbly onto the deck of the Lake Champlain and walked without wobbling. NASA doctors aboard the aircraft carrier probed the astronauts' ears, looked down their throats, poked their chests, listened to their hearts, took their pulse, sampled their blood and made scores of other medical measurements. The first medical findings: the astronauts were in "wonderful shape...