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...former resident of New York City, I take exception to the view that Lindsay's election signals a comeback for the Republican Party from the disaster of 1964. The man Mr. Lindsay ran against was a product of the corrupt, inept and hopeless Democratic organization that has left the city in the stagnant position it finds itself in today. A stronger Democratic candidate certainly would have sent J.V.L. scurrying back to Congress...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). Elmer Gantry, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel about a corrupt revivalist preacher. Burt Lancaster, in the title role, won an Oscar for his performance...
Scores of times in the past year, local commanders have ousted politicians they considered corrupt. Many military men were bitterly opposed to the recent gubernatorial elections, fearing that the same old political faces would reappear. And in fact they did. A coalition of Goulart's P.T.B. labor party and the P.S.D. of ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, stripped of his political rights for corruption, won the governorships of two key states-Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Rio). Even then, Castello Branco might have persuaded the officers to simmer down had it not been for the return to Brazil of Kubitschek from...
...cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market. Get yours, reasons the King, and despite rigid camp rules against trading, he gets his: watches, rings, or the shirt off another prisoner's back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition; and King measures out his hoarded foodstuffs so shrewdly that...
...Edwin Hoyt (The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes) tells the same sick story everybody tells: bastard birth, maternal insanity, preschool rape, foster-family neglect, casting-couch apprenticeship, fanny-flipping fame, dismal marriages, barbiturate addiction, overdosed death. And he reaches the same solemn conclusion: Marilyn was the "innocent" victim of a corrupt society. Now really...