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...first of these changes reflects an attempt to drain much of the political clout from the Community Action program, ont of the most controversial components of the federal antipoverty package. In addition to financing local agencies like Action for Boston Community Development, Community Action funds have been used for community organizing among the poor -- building neighborhood associations that could effectively represent the demands of the poor and mobilize protest if the establishment refused to comply...
Less Hypocrisy. Along with this shift came the fresh realization that audiences and their attitudes have changed. They are younger and they carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance...
...films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry Palmer adventure, Billion-Dollar Brain, Caine carries enough professional clout to order the movie shot upside down if he chooses...
...investment by paying royalties once their planes are delivered. To be sure, the "progress payments" will not account for much of the two prototypes' estimated $5 billion cost, 90% of which will be paid by the Government. But the airlines' show of confidence could have some clout with an ornery Congress that includes liberal Democrats who fear the poverty program will suffer from...
...over the Allegheny County machine and the state party organization-Dave Lawrence demonstrated his own kind of big-league class: he delivered Pennsylvania for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936-the first time since 1856 that a Democratic presidential candidate had carried the state. By 1944, Lawrence had enough national clout to stem a convention tide favoring the renomination of Henry A. Wallace as F.D.R.'s Vice President. Amid a storm of boos on the convention floor. Lawrence demanded and won a recess. By the time the sessions resumed the next day, Wallace was out and Harry S Truman...