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...National Asset. The President covets his precious hours along the Pedernales the way a miser covets gold. Because of their effect on him, the 438 sun-baked acres of the L.B.J. ranch may be as much a national asset during the Johnson presidency as all the vaults in Fort Knox. To some 75 reporters attending a ranch barbecue - and John son's first live TV press conference in nearly a year - the President just did not seem the same man who had walked out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue five days before...
...North Vietnamese had a more pragmatic view of U.S. policy. Having repeatedly and unequivocally rejected all logical conditions for a settlement, they took the precaution of assembling around Haiphong and Hanoi one of the world's most lethal concentrations of antiaircraft guns and missiles. Haiphong's precious complex was guarded by 56 multicaliber antiaircraft guns and seven SAM sites. Hanoi's installation bristled with more than 90 ack-ack guns, countless massed machine guns and nearly a score of missile sites. How heavily defended the targets were-thanks to the help of Moscow and Peking-the pilots...
...plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort of paradise," says Literary Historian Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 72, former head of Columbia's English Department. And Philosopher Morton White calls it "a cosmopolitan island in the middle of suburbia, a place of refuge in which every moment is precious...
...David, Douglas, Paul! How about a little less whining and a little more determination as we thank God that we were not born in time for Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Omaha Beach and Guam. Those young guys were inconvenienced too, you know. Because they were, you've got your precious freedom and college education...
...decides that he has found the dupe to drive a certain white Cadillac convertible from Naples to Bordeaux. More than hot, the Cad is a crime wave on wheels; its bumpers are full of gold, its fenders are full of heroin, its battery contains a fortune in precious stones, and the fabulous You-Koun-Koun diamond is hidden among the optional accessories...