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MARCH--The University purchases the River Street power station and plans to convert it into the Tenth House. "All it needs is a little fixing up to blend in with the rest of Harvard's new architecture," observes President Pusey. Ethel Kennedy is awarded the "See What We Mean" Trophy by the Planned Parenthood League of America...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Disneyland celebrates its tenth anniversary. Color...
...TIME was June 22, 1953. The judgment, about the man who was emerging as the key figure in putting together the pieces of a badly beaten and divided Democratic Party, was made at the end of our first cover story on Lyndon Johnson. This week he makes his tenth appearance on the cover, a victorious and powerful President, as Man of the Year...
...Congressman from 1937 to 1948, Johnson learned his politics from a couple of masters, Roosevelt and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn. Once, he wanted F.D.R.'s approval for an electrification project in his Tenth District, but found that every time he got into the oval office, Roosevelt dominated the conversation and waved him out before he had a chance to make his pitch. It is a technique that Johnson has since emulated with great success. In any case, Lyndon learned that Roosevelt was a sucker for photos of dams, brought along a batch of big glossy prints the next time...
...possibilities. The test borings and surveys would take about four years. Once a route is decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route to $500 million...