Word: burtons
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Tenuously allied with Hays in a drive for power is California's equally ambitious and canny Phillip Burton, 48, the newly elected chairman of the Democratic caucus. While each keeps a wary eye on the other, both are maneuvering to succeed Carl Albert as Speaker of the House. Albert last week lent new urgency to this jockeying by refusing to confirm-or deny-a public report that he intends to retire when his current term ends. Blocking the path of both Hays and Burton, however, is Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the House majority leader...
...Died. Burton K. Wheeler, 92, isolationist Montana Senator (1923-47); in Washington, D.C. First elected in 1922, Democrat Wheeler gained a national reputation with his aggressive investigation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, later became an ardent New Dealer. He broke with F.D.R. over the President's plan to enlarge and pack the Supreme Court, earning a reputation as "the man who whipped Roosevelt." As World War II engulfed Europe, Wheeler became an America Firster, charging that aid to besieged Britain would drag the U.S. into a fight that would "plow under every fourth American boy." Defeated for renomination...
...Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat more intense in her approach...
...Elizabeth II proving as arbitrary and demanding as Elizabeth I? Rumors were rife in London that Richard Burton's new romance, Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, had folded her dreams and stolen back to the shelter of her London house, leaving Richard alone in his Alpine chalet. The rift was said to be caused by Richard's bouts of drinking, which even visits to a faith healer had failed to cure. A friend was reported to have said: "Before Burton swept her off her feet, Elizabeth thought her husband was dull. Now she realizes she could never endure...
WIDE RECEIVERS: Larry Burton, Purdue, 6 ft. 1 in., 188 lbs. An Olympic sprinter who has been clocked at 9.3 in the 100-yd. dash and has all the moves of a top receiver. At Purdue he averaged better than 18 yds. per catch...