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Tues., Jan. 17 The Art Carney Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* In a revue entitled "Everybody's Doin' It," Lee Remick and Alice Ghostley join Carney in a humorous look at that overpublicized modern bugaboo, conformity. Color...
...size. Since two consecutive legislatures must pass constitutional amendments, action in that body is unlikely. An amendment legalizing the graduated income tax got past the last session, but next time reluctance to have new taxation and inertial resistance to change will probably gang up against this traditional bugaboo...
...Bugaboo. He returned for the next day's scheduled 36-hole round determined to put on another of his dramatic finishes. During his first nine, jet planes screamed overhead. From the 8th through the 12th, Palmer slogged his way through a heavy cloudburst, which later forced postponement of the last 18. At the 15th, as he was addressing the ball, a train puffed and tooted past; on the 16th fairway, Palmer was attacked by an angry bee. Despite the distractions, Palmer played almost flawless golf. He birdied the 2nd, 5th, 13th and 14th, and ran up an unbroken string...
...talk. In 1952, with a successful string of 13 primaries behind him, the Keef was stopped cold in mid-convention by President Harry Truman and the Democratic bosses simply because he did not fit their image of a nominee. No such feelings exist about Kennedy, and his one big bugaboo-his Catholic religion-was gone with West Virginia...
...weapon in a forthcoming Nassau County election. Other opposition has come mainly from counties who have thought themselves able to finance education without raising local taxes, who have turned down bond issues repeatedly. Significantly, however, opposition to educational spending has reversed its field. Where once "federal" control was the bugaboo, in New York it seems that "local" control is the danger. Fortunately, this is a difficult point to prove...