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...this outing are Broadway Comedian Robert Morse as a fidgety magazine reporter assigned to Operation Deep Freeze, and George Maharis as the lecherous photographer who helps thaw out a pair of playthings flown into the base for publicity purposes. One is a blonde (Janine Gray), one a brunette (Anjanette Comer), and that is the easiest way to tell them apart. It doesn't really matter. As a showcase of young talent, Melts appears to be the year's best bet for instant anonymity...
...Another comer on the Tory front bench is Christopher Soames, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, who moved up from Agriculture to replace troublesome Peter Thorneycroft as shadow Defense Minister. Thorneycroft, whose wildly expensive projects for military aircraft had proved embarrassing to Sir Alec, was reassigned to shadow the Home Office, where he will have less chance to get into mischief. The irascible and erratic Quintin Hogg, who had contested Sir Alec's nomination as Prime Minister in 1963, was another casualty: he was replaced as shadow Minister of Education and Science, henceforth assigned only to undefined "special...
...spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged him as a comer, and last year, after the bloody Canal Zone riots, picked him as Ambassador to Panama...
...ready for almost anything that might happen in the 89th Congress. Strolling among the desks, Albert sized up and greeted the neophytes. "Hi, how are you getting along?" he asked, extending his hand. "Come by and see me if I can help you in any way." One eager new comer asked when he could make a speech. Albert replied briskly: "When you feel ready and have something to say. Beyond that, there are no holds barred...
Rhode Island Republican John Chafee warned the legislature that state spending may run as much as $10 million above revenues in 1965, called for "a year of restraint." Republican Chafee, who won a fairly spectacular ticket-splitting victory amidst the Democratic sweep and is being watched as a Republican comer, faces a new test; in the past, he managed to cope with a narrowly Democratic legislature through his veto power, but now both houses have Democratic majorities large enough to override...