Eye Sore: One evening when Lyndon Johnson...

Eye Sore: One evening when Lyndon Johnson was vice president, he stopped by the Monocle, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, and was annoyed when no tables were available. LBJ had restaurant owner Connie Valanos ask over the public address system whether someone would give up a table for the vice president. According to Monocle manager John Valanos, there were no takers, and Johnson stormed out of the restaurant, never to return.

Out in the Cold: A former spy for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, said Tuesday in Jerusalem’s Maariv newspaper he expected to be killed by his former bosses because a book he co-wrote exposes agency secrets. Victor Ostrovsky, now hiding in Canada, co-authored “By Way of Deception,” which Israel is formally trying to ban in Canada. The book charges that Israel knew of a planned attack on the U.S. Marine base at Beirut airport in October, 1983, which killed 241 Marines, but did not warn the U.S. in order to damage U.S.-Arab relations. An unnamed Israeli spokesman said the book has “a few facts and a lot of imagination.”

Legal Help: Miss America 1991, Marjorie Judith Vincent, 25, said Monday in New York she is most concerned about problems of battered women and that when she finishes law school at Duke University she will offer free legal advice to them. “We need more organizations to help these women . . . and better rehabilitation programs for abusers,” she said.

On the Market: One of Gerald Ford’s Grand Rapids, Mich., boyhood homes is up for sale. It stood empty for 20 years while the city tried to raise $51,000 to turn it into a museum. The former congressman, who became president in 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned, lived in the four-bedroom house from age 10 through junior high.