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...Houlihan found a ready aide in City Manager Wayne Thompson, a persuasive performer who can speak the language of both the sociologists and the politicians. Between Houlihan and Thompson, so many projects are now under way in Oakland that Thompson has to give city councilmen daily reports of the breathless course of redevelopment. Oakland has finished, is building or is about to build projects costing some $750 million. Among them: 40 schools, two stadiums, $30 million worth of harbor improvements, two freeways costing $150 million, three slum-clearance projects totaling $74 million...
...Under Secret Service guard," read a breathless report from the Associated Press. "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy slipped out of Palm Beach last night and for an hour and a half danced the 'Twist' in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub." Within hours, livid Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger set the wires burning again with the charge that the story "was a cheap effort by a nightclub owner to use the First Family for publicity purposes," and A. P. President Benjamin McKelway was servicing a wordy personal apology to Jackie. Cause of all the hubbub: a zingy Jackie-lookalike, Stephanie Laye Javits...
...BREATHLESS. Director Jean-Luc Godard, a 30-year-old Frenchman, produced a striking piece of cubistic cinema -technically and experimentally the most original film of the year-that describes the last three days of sex and violence in the life of a young thug (portrayed in feral fashion by Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf seat in the Bundestag that he still holds. As Interior Minister, Schröder was famed for inept statements, most notably his breathless announcement that defecting Counterspy Otto John had been "kidnaped" by the East Germans in 1954. Cracked one nightclub comic: "Schröder has some more good ideas, but he can't spell them out-the wrong moment hasn't come...
Ever since he lost the 1960 presidential election by a breathless .17% of the popular vote, Nixon has been pondering about the care and feeding of his political future. His obvious course was to run for Governor of California. But there were grave hazards, including: 1) the chance that his political career might be abruptly ended by defeat either in the Republican primary or in the general election against Democratic Incumbent Pat Brown, and 2) the fact that the next Governor of California will be elected to serve until 1966, and the state's voters are notably leary...