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Upperclassmen used to bait doolies all weekend; now doolies may close their doors if they want to be alone. For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes. "They're discovering that an officer is like any other American," says one faculty member. "He has a wife, kids, and weeds in the lawn. We don't just play bridge and get drunk all the time...
...along. Kennedy decided to get Bowles out. He invited Bowles down for a swim in the White House pool. Then the two had lunch while Kennedy explained that he had a new job, outside Washington, in mind for Bowles. Bowles not only refused to bite at Kennedy's bait, but went out and stirred up protests among his cultist liberal following. In the face of a fuss, Jack Kennedy backed away - but anyone
...diseases of deficiency: galloping ambition. He finds biological consolation by attaching himself to a gorgeous platinum blonde (Mary Peach) about half his age. He takes political revenge by attaching himself to the bright pink rump of the party. But these two concerns conflict. He misses his big chance to bait the Prime Minister because he has taken an opportunity to bed the blonde; and he loses the blonde because he would obviously rather elevate himself than raise a family. In the end he gets a big desk to pound in the Post Office, but he pays a shameful price...
...lyrics by Jerry Herman; choreography by Donald Saddler) takes a troupe of middle-aged U.S. widows on a tour of Israel in an open search for second love. Making her Broadway musical debut, thimble-sized Molly Picon, 63, is cast as a wily matchmaker who never forgets to bait her own hook. Comedienne Picon mock-droops an eyelid, smacks her lips together as if they were their own best friends, and in the archly mingled inflections of Cupid and cupidity queries each promising male: "What line are you in?" Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell play the romantic leads, and their...
Wages & Rockets. Meanwhile, the South's bait of low wages, nonunion shops, and tax relief for new plants has paid off handsomely in new jobs. In the lead is Florida, which has rocketed ahead 95%-fueled by Cape Canaveral's missiles, by chemicals, and by carloads of tourists. After Florida, the heaviest percentage growth is in the nation's southwest quadrant. Texas with its petrochemicals, military bases and white-collar industries, California with its missiles and electronics plants, and Florida now account for one out of every six nonfarm jobs. Five Rocky Mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico...