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...committed to holding new federal elections in November. Schiller's departure is likely to hurt Brandt's chances of again defeating the powerful Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union, since he is losing what Germans call an "election locomotive." The slim and still boyish professor, who rescued the West German economy from its 1967 recession, pulled in the votes in the last federal election, which gave the Social Democrats their upset victory in 1969. Once in office, Schiller helped calm the fears of West German businessmen about Brandt's Socialist regime...
...soon as Jody Smith assumed the mayoralty of Ayrshire, Iowa (pop. 300), three months ago, things began to, well, hop. The first thing he did was take $800 from the budget to spruce up the rundown town hall-including patching a wall at which, in a burst of boyish spirit, several of his Boy Scout troop had once thrown a fellow member. Toughly impartial, he recently fined his 17-year-old brother, Len, $24 for illegal possession of beer. He has spearheaded several long-needed reforms, such as jacking up the town speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h...
...gentle charm, and the kind of offhand authority that makes administration easy and donors eager. His successor, Bates Lowry, proved to be a disastrous administrator and lasted only ten months. Hightower remained 20. His failure has something to do with that impalpable thing called presence. He looked even more boyish than his years. Often compelled by his job as director to address fund-raising dinners or opening-show gatherings, he faced one of the world's most knowledgeable audiences with the admission that "I do not pretend to know much about art history...
...pulpits from which bulletins and statements issue forth: ubiquitous, invisible cameras whisk us from the streets of Whittier to the airports of Latin America to the state rooms of the White House. the confusion is over-whelming, despite the feverish order De Antonio imposes on his snark hunt. Boyish Richard Nixons jostle elbows with thuggish images of President Nixons. But nowhere is the mystery of the man penetrated. He remains a totally unreal figure, a substance as shadowy as his own infamous five o'clock stubble...
David Reuben, M.D., the California psychiatrist, boyish authority symbol and author of Everything You Always Wanted to know About Sex . . . etc., continues to practice writing without a license. Like EYAWTKAS, his latest effort is an ask-the-answerman approach to sex education and social adjustment. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the first book provided a lot more incontestable information. Any Woman Can! makes sense mostly as an overpriced, over-the-counter nostrum marketed to exploit whatever Women's Lib awareness has spread to the nation's largest day-to-day purchasing-power bloc-white, middleclass, heterosexual...