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...hand. Since he provided the driving force behind One-Eyed Jacks, of which he was both star and director in 1961, Brando has essayed a series of character roles in a succession of failures: a brooding cowpoke in The Appaloosa, a self-righteous sheriff in The Chase, a cagey con-man in Bedtime Story. Once again in a film good enough to match his talents, he demonstrates conclusively in Night that his powers remain undiminished by intervening years of sloppiness and self-indulgence. It is good to have him back...
Dimbleby dismissed much of the ceremonial as "a road show" and "a con." As Air Force One taxied in at London's Heathrow Airport, he observed that "President Nixon is no doubt adjusting his face and deciding whether it's more suitable to smile or look stern as he comes out. He is a man with a face for all seasons; so no doubt it will be the appropriate look." At one point, as the camera cliff-hung on the door of No. 10 Downing Street and the end of a Wilson-Nixon meeting, he sniped: "Of course...
Another promising development was announced last week in Chicago. For years the American Academy of Gen eral Practice has been campaigning to have its branch of the profession rec ognized as a specialty ? despite the con tradiction in terms. Now, after many commissions and conferences, the A.M.A.'s Council on Medical Education and the Advisory Board for Medical Specialties have granted the G.P.'s plea and agreed to let the generalist become a specialist in "family medicine." The A.A.G.P.'s president, Chicagoan...
...dialect words together with some on-the-spot code words into a language that the enemies-be they womenfolk, their rivals, their elders, their children-could not possibly understand. It caught on, rapidly losing its value as a code; soon "Boontlingers" and their friends were eagerly trying to shark (con) each other with new inventions...
...first presidential press con ference last week, Richard Nixon placed the nation's economic problems on his list of matters that "require urgent attention." Promising "some fine tuning of our fiscal and monetary affairs to control inflation," the President expressed considerable concern over the rate at which prices are rising. "We believe it is possible to control inflation without in creasing unemployment in any substantial way," said Nixon. But he warned...