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Connally is in the early phase of a speechmaking blitz that by mid-December is to take him, in at least 40 separate appearances, to every section of the nation. Like his talk in Kansas City, about half are scheduled for strictly Republican audiences-the middle-ranking committee members and fund raisers who feel that they have a right to a firsthand look at the party's newest star and who can be very helpful at a nominating convention if they like him. "I'm going to pace myself a little better next year," Connally claims...
...Manager Luis Miguel ("Mike") Gallegos−upon whose thin breast every one of last week's guests would like to hang a medal−evacuated his 270 charges and 200 employees to the cavernous second basement. It took on the atmosphere of a London tube stop during the blitz, but with a notably international flavor. A French journalist challenged all comers to Scrabble in French. An S. A.S. pilot treated friends to drinks. A Tokyo businessman impassively read a magazine. Only one guest, Jerusalem Post Managing Editor Ari Raph, was wounded, and he but slightly. Raph, a veteran...
...Aviv briefing: "We were carrying out a routine sea patrol to see what was going on in the area." More likely, the action was timed to coincide with the conclusion of a summit on Arab unity in Cairo. It was, in short, a kind of Israeli psychological blitz designed to suggest that all Arab talk of future confrontations, united commands and renewed fedayeen action was futile in the face of Israeli military might...
...record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory -- at this point the movie...
...India be saved?" Blitz, a supporter of Mrs. Gandhi, continued: "Political and economic problems of Himalayan dimensions threaten to crash upon the Indira Gandhi government unless it wakes up to the awesome realities...