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Despite his age, Hayden is still a formidable Senate figure. A few weeks ago, a controversial proposal came up at a Democratic Policy Committee meeting. Several Democratic leaders favored it; Hayden was against it. Taking a long puff on his cigar, he growled: "I don't like that goddam bill." It died shortly thereafter...
...Cigar Smoke. McCormack's House critics accuse him of slippery ways, and McCormack himself admits to what he calls "diversionary" tactics. When pressed for a decision or a political commitment, he shrouds his plans and motives with a cloud of words as thick and nebulous as the cigar smoke that usually surrounds him. Says a frustrated White House staffer: "He takes half an hour just to say hello.'' Once, McCormack drove Curley to distraction by refusing to say whether or not he intended to run for mayor of Boston. After mushroom clouds of doubletalk...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...
Says Barnes: "Basically, New York's problems are the same as any other city's; they're just bigger." Then he smiles, shifts his cigar from corner to corner, and barks: "Think of it: the biggest city in the world, and not one radar-actuated traffic signal! Oh, there's going to be changes, all right...
...acted with selfless intensity by a cast of six, Brecht on Brecht is an arresting example of offbeat off-Broadway. Close to stage rear, a portrait of Brecht peers out at the audience, eyes wily and skeptical, lips sealed in a self-mocking smile, peasant fingers clenched around a cigar-a complex blend of irony and passion. Brecht aimed his irony at the rich, the powerful, the complacent-and himself. He spent his passion on human suffering. Though he ended his days as an East German showpiece, Brecht's economic philosophy was little more than an emotional assent...