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Battle of the Sexes is an odd adaptation. A Peter Sellers movie based nominally on James Thurber's The Catbird Seat, it transports the action from New York to an old-fashioned woolens company in Scotland. Verrry Brrritish...and verrry funny...
...probably have little chance of dislodging fellow Republican Charles E. Goodell from his Senate seat. What ever his prospects in the next two years, Lindsay's long-range future still looks bright. The possibility of running for Governor in 1974 looms large, and would put him in the catbird seat for a presidential try in 1976. For Rockefeller, the campaign for re-election has already begun. One of his aides predicted that it will be much like his previous drives-"a lot of dash, a lot of meetings and just a little money...
Long's powers-and powers of endurance-are no laughing matter. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with lusty behind-the-scenes bravos from the Administration, which looks longingly toward the Long green in campaign treasure promised by his act, he has been in the catbird seat right from the beginning. Repeal of his act was tacked on as an amendment to the important investment tax-credit bill* sought by business and the Administration. Long simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators...
Song of the Catbird...
...TIME'S assessment of Yevtushenko as a poet [Dec. 2] agrees with mine: no nightingale. Perhaps catbird or magpie...