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...massive counterattack to put him into some of those fastidious, elder-statesman outfits that Nixon and Johnson wore. No wrinkles, no bulges, no flaws. Nobody who really works can keep clothes like that, which may have been part of our trouble. Ford has been seen with buckle shoes, no-cuff pants and colored shirts. The other day he had on a gray shirt. Not a dirty shirt. Just a gray-colored shirt, like one of those which children and wives get for fathers and husbands...
COLORADO. He is still given to wearing polished, calf-length boots and three-leaf-clover cuff links, but handsome Gary W. Hart, 36, now a Denver attorney, has matured considerably since he directed George McGovern's campaign in 1972. Running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, Hart took much more pragmatic and moderate positions on defense and social issues than his old mentor did, going so far as to advocate a reduction in welfare doles and a new emphasis on public-service jobs and private employment...
Chomping a fat cigar and wearing an authentic-looking paunch, Actor Richard Burton has been rehearsing for his Hallmark Hall of Fame role as Sir Winston Churchill, which will be televised in November. A devoted Churchill fan, Burton owns a pair of Winnie's cuff links and has a framed telegram from him on his wall. In the past year alone, he has read a score of books and articles on his idol. Burton's assessment: "He was the best actor of our times -playing himself, of course...
...contains direct tributes to such classics as John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and John Ford's The Searchers. But the most obvious homage is to Huston's Beat the Devil, a bit of straight-faced parody made more or less off the cuff. The picture has strong overtones of a director's not only assaulting the audience but deflating himself in the process. Indeed, Warren Gates seems to have modeled his excellent characterization of Bennie on Peckinpah himself, complete with foggy aspect, enveloping sunglasses and calculatedly gross behavior...
Each man in turn goes on camera and gives off-the-cuff answers to her questions about the possibility of another shutdown. No one says anything surprising. One confided later that he wouldn't have said anything if he had wanted to--not while wearing his company shirt on television...