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...dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is." He has little faith in the staying power of some of the more belligerent radicals; often they are the first to give up when the going gets rough. "He who lives by the sword shall perish by the champagne cocktail...
Fairly good reviews for his "subversive comedy," Sheep on the Runway, may have launched a playwright's career for Columnist Art Buchwald (see THE THEATER). Meanwhile, cocktail conversation in New York and Washington is centered on Sheep's catalyst, Joseph Mayflower, played by Martin Gabel. Could Mayflower, a superhawk newsman who drinks only bottled water and claims Is Peace Inevitable? among his writing credits, possibly be a parody of Pundit Joseph Alsop? Buchwald denies it unconvincingly, but Alsop seems to think so. "If Joe's still angry after the run," suggests the humorist, "we'll meet...
...HarBus contract with the Publications Board. One Pub Board member wanted to fine the HarBus for dragging its feet in the negotiations; he resigned when the Pub Board decided simply to continue negotiations. This controversy included questions such as whether the Pub Board could sponsor prospective-proprietorship cocktail parties with the $500 assessed against the HarBus for use of Business School facilities...
...recent Gallup poll on men most admired by Americans showed Agnew an unprecedented No. 3, after Nixon and Billy Graham. He is still the butt of jokes at chic Washington cocktail parties, but over at the White House, the sly little Agnew jokes so popular among staffers six months ago are no longer heard. The Veep's picture, rarely in evidence at first, now shares the walls of the basement corridor with Nixon...
Until recently Actor Donald Sutherland was the kind of person who got overlooked at cocktail parties. The face was familiar, but then hundreds of guys are tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and skinny (185 lbs.), with blond hair, blue eyes, belled teeth, slightly bowed ears, and a resemblance to a tall pencil or a short television tower. Meanwhile, in one film after another for the past two years, Sutherland has been filling the screen with a low-key presence that has left critics grasping for adjectives and audiences grasping for his name. All that is changing, however...