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...tanker Concho chugged into the harbor of Chelsea, Mass., late last month carrying 8.4 million gallons of heating oil. An everyday occurrence, with one important exception: the fuel on board cost only 47? per gal., or about two-thirds the normal 75?-per-gal. wholesale price. The importer was the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. (CEC), headed by Joseph P. Kennedy II, 27, eldest son of late Senator Robert Kennedy. A vociferous critic of the energy firms' "greed," the young Kennedy was out to prove that oil companies were ripping off the public...
Duel at Diablo is ostensibly a battle between murderous Apaches and a company of American folk types who are fighting their way with troops, ammunition and supplies from a place called Fort Creel to a place called Fort Concho. Many a sturdy western has sprung to life from such straightforward plans as these, but Director Ralph Nelson and his scenarists clutter up the spectacular Utah scenery with something other than frontier history. Clearly indebted to more current events, Diablo's wagon train carries two kinds of people: bad guys and freedom riders...
Artist-Poetess-Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, was signed up by a sometime escort, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank (The Tender Trap) Sinatra, to make her movie debut as leading lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...
Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...