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Some of the other men who served under John Kennedy left Washington years ago, iridescent with the celebrity of Camelot, and found a measure of fortune. Dean Rusk stayed on to work for Lyndon Johnson. Rusk was never exactly part of the New Frontier's clan anyway; he was taciturn, stubborn, spartan, undeniably intelligent, distrustful of personal publicity, given to seven-day work weeks at the State Department...
...years, it was the place where fighting was off-limits, a sort of combat-free Camelot with mangoes. The Communists, secure in their sanctuaries near the South Vietnamese border, were happy to limit themselves to resting and resupplying there. The allies, fearful of violating its avowed neutrality, kept out almost entirely. But Indochina's Camelot has now become a free-fire zone, and almost everyone with a stake in the outcome of the war seems to be sending troops or advisers into Cambodia...
Richard Burton remembers meeting Nichols and May backstage when he was starring in Camelot. "Elaine was too formidable . . . one of the most intelligent, beautiful and witty women I had ever met. I hoped I would never see her again." Mike was less formidable, more agreeable. The mustard-colored eyes glinted, but the face had an unlined, almost feminine softness. The voice was as warm and resonant as a cello. Burton, who knows role playing when he sees it, was at first unconvinced by the proffered friendship and admiration. But eventually he enrolled Nichols in the Richard Burton fan club...
Died. Alfred Newman, 68, Academy Award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor; of emphysema; in Hollywood. "If I want to write great music," Newman once said, "I have no right being here." Perhaps true, but he was honored with eight Oscars and 45 nominations for orchestrating such films as Carousel, Camelot and The King and I; on his own he scored such hits as Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Robe and How the West...
...even in the can that could never net as much as originally projected. In November, the last tycoon of old Hollywood, Jack Warner, retired from the studio bearing his name. But even before his formal send-off (on Sound Stage No. 7, where the "Great Hall" set from Camelot is still unstruck), 45 of Warner's 62 pending projects were unceremoniously jettisoned. In the old days, a major studio would shoot as many as 50 pictures a year. In 1970, the average will be closer...