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...retarded ex-football player in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People, Caan offstage is an exuberant put-on artist and stand-up comedian. He also has a bit of Sonny in him. "I was the toughest guy at P.S. 106 back in New York," he likes to boast. "I was expelled from a private school for throwing some kid out a window. He wasn't really hurt. It was only a 1½story fall, and he landed in a flower garden...
...recent weeks other interested parties have been asking the same question: Who is Herb Kalmbach? His name has figured prominently in stories about the exclusive Lincoln Club of Orange County, a group of millionaire businessmen who like to boast that without their munificent fund-raising efforts, Nixon would not be President. According to insiders, the man in charge of funneling funds into G.O.P. coffers is one Herbert W. Kalmbach. Last week potential backers of the Republican Convention in San Diego received copies of a letter signed by John Keeney, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's fraud division. While...
...closet" and rushed into print. Perhaps best among these accounts is a book by Australian Dennis Altman. Between them Miller and Altman measure just how far the "gay" liberation has come. Miller's book is a confession and a plea for understanding. Altman's book is a boast and a demand for social revolution...
...idle boast. On Twig-gy's 98-lb. frame Justin built a mini-conglomerate. Besides Twiggy Good Times Productions, formed last October, there is an umbrella organization known as Twiggy Enterprises. Though Justin and Twiggy are now out of the fashion business, their organizations have in the past rented her name to Twiggy dolls ($1,000,000 profit in royalties) and Twiggy clothes ($300,000), and to Yardley of London cosmetics (around $1,000,000 over five years) for, among other things, eyeliners called "Twiggy Stix." "Deals, deals, deals," says Justin. "We do things as we get interested. That...
...regular troops a fair shot at dealing effectively with North Vietnamese main-force units-if they have ample air support. But no one knows what to expect from the untried irregulars who man the vital outposts along the roads and outside the villages. These Regional and Popular Forces boast 513,000 wellarmed, full-time troops, but they are unseasoned and would be no match for the tough Viet Cong or North Vietnamese professionals. As for the unpaid part-timers of the 500,000-man Popular Self-Defense Force, they are assumed to be so infiltrated by the V.C. that many...