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...little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball off the crossbar. This time he hit Collins on the chest and heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!" said Ryan later. "For a while I thought for sure that...
Humphrey proved to be a better equestrian than onetime Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had been -but not by much. After the ride, he returned to terra firma with a heavy sigh of relief, announced that he would do anything for Johnson but: "No more horses." The President haw-hawed, later shep herded a few people, including Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, on a leisurely sundown tour of the ranch, drawled contentedly about the soil, the rain, and the virtues of the U.S. voter. At the ranch after dinner, Lyndon and Hu bert kidded about their pre-election predictions; Johnson had said...
...with the American Bar Association's highest endorsement of "exceptionally well-qualified." The tall, stern son of a County sheriff, Cox was a stickler for detail and had been a first-rate trial lawyer in Jackson. Other Kennedy appointees seemed equally qualified, and the Administration heaved a sigh of relief...
Even the luckiest people need a star to sigh by-or so it seemed when Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, went backstage to visit Broadway's Fanny Girl Barbra Streisand, 22. "I'm really honored," bubbled Barbra, clearly launched into orbit. "I'm always interested in scientific and medical things. Whenever I go to the dentist, I can spend three, three-and-a-half hours there talking about nerve endings and things like that. But about those things up there-I don't know what a star's made of. Do you?" "Good looks-talent...
...wife runs the country, Fred runs the home. He plans the meals, looks after the children, goes shopping with visiting VIPs, sends the missus off to work with a kiss, and in the evening asks her how things went at the office. "Pretty well," she replies with a sigh. "But I'm dead tired. Mind if I go straight to sleep...