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...fighters: Drs. John R. Heller Jr. and the late Thomas M. Rivers. The university also produced three noted historians-Yale's C. Vann Woodward, Virginia's Dumas Malone, Stanford's David Potter -plus Columbia Classicist Moses Hadas (see story below), Golfer Bobby Jones and the late Veep Alben Barkley...
...Boggs." TOSSing a wingding of a birthday party for vivacious Lindy Boggs, wife of House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, were Lyndon and his Lady Bird, who is fast becoming one of Washington's mostes' hostesses. A heart-shaped cake proclaimed Lindy "Everybody's Sweetheart," and the Veep added further encomiums with a gold-tooled album inscribed "Woman of the Year Every Year...
Power-Stripped President. Homecoming as a hero contrasts sharply with Quadros' bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor...
...your article "Liberal Control": cheers for National Student Association Veep Timothy Jenkins. His "extremism" may spotlight the hypocrisy of such as William F. Buckley Jr., who have subverted the cause of moderate conservatives by posturing us as udicrous figures somewhere between Adolf Hitler and George Babbitt...
Views. President Janio Quadros quickly showed the Veep who was boss by linking Goulart's name to Kubi-tschek-regime scandals. Then Quadros moved to heal the breach by appointing Goulart head of a trade mission to Red China. In Peking, Goulart gushed that "People's China, under the leadership of the great leader Mao Tse-tung, is an example that shows how a people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." But his friends say that amiable Jango Goulart is probably more demagogic than Marxist. Before the U.S. Congress in 1956 he said: "The Brazilian...