Nation: Up from Poverty

Even by Text, standards, Lyndon and Lady Bird have long been considered wealthy. Last week the Washington Evening Star made a detailed attempt at estimating the Johnson family's financial worth, arrived at a tidy figure of more than $9,000,000.

Listed were the following assets in Texas, most of them held by the Texas Broadcasting Corp.,*in which Lady Bird, Luci Baines and Lynda Bird hold 84% of the stock:

>Austin radio station KTBC and tele vision station KTBC-TV, which holds an area monopoly in one of the nation's largest cities with only one television station....

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