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...Poor Nixon," said Johnson. "He's discovering he can't go anywhere without a hundred good friends from the press following him. Every time I'd go to the washroom I'd meet 40 of them on the way." The President removed his gold-rimmed glasses and rubbed his eyes. "I haven't been sleeping so well, you know, what with the bombing and all. Neither has Rusk. Poor Rusk. He came in the other night for a late conference with a terrible cold. I've had one, too, for the last six months...
...class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti may be the only creative outlet for some adults...
...years he has kidded General David Sarnoff, who takes both his brigadier's star and position as RCA board chairman with great seriousness. But even Sarnoff chuckles when Hope whips out with: "When I started with the NBC network, he was using the enlisted-men's washroom." And he has certainly had the last say on the progress of television. After Newton Mi-now's 1961 complaint that TV was a "vast wasteland," Hope measured television's subsequent progress and concluded: "Mr. Newton Minow is a man of high ideals, whose needling, prodding and constructive suggestions...
Secretaries scurry about the HSA offices in the cellar of the Esquire Theater, phones ring, personnel move ponderously up and down the corridors. The red wooden doors constantly open and shut. It's all very busy and all that's missing is an executive washroom...
...last decade, in particular, has taught black Americans that the attainment of legal rights which should have been theirs as a matter of course didn't mean much either. A cup of coffee in a Southern cafe. The cance to urinate next to a white man in a washroom. The opportunity to spen da night in a decent hotel room...