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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. A corps of high-borne comedians (Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi, Terry-Thomas) barnstorm through a London-Paris air race at the controls of delightful vintage-1910 aircraft-held together by heroism, slapstick and nostalgia...
...Johnson, the same voters picked Johnson over Goldwater, 38% to 25% (37% were undecided), while they favored Scranton over Johnson, 33% to 24% (43% were undecided). This was one of the first times since Lyndon took office that any Republican has beaten him in any poll. Scranton figured to barnstorm Illinois early in the week, hitting "as many places as possible," top his campaign off with a nationwide telecast, then head for San Francisco...
...well in. What we can do is a very thorough job in direct mail and in canvassing door to door." Goldberg and Volunteer Helper Sally Saltonstall (niece of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall), have divided the state into small sectors of every county in which six-man teams will soon barnstorm on an enlistment campaign. Goldberg figures that each team should be able to reach between 400 and 500 people a day, at the rate of ten people per hour. If the plan works, the Lodge volunteers will have made contact with 150,000 Republicans before the primary...
Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
...continued his blooper-blemished barnstorm through Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen Williams at long last heard a soothing theme amid the contrapuntal catcalls. At a Baptist mission 60 miles south of Leopoldville. a choir of Congolese schoolboys serenaded him with a painstaking rendition of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Soapy joined the chorus...