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...bring about new national leadership." There is no question that Lindsay wants the presidency; there is only the question of when and how he should seek it. At 49, Lindsay last week took the first step in what amounts to a new political career, escaping from the Republican cul-de-sac in which he was trapped and eventually, he hopes, from the sooty horizons of New York City, which has a tradition of breaking its mayors' political careers...
...cul-de-sac beach at Corona del Mar, Calif., the Rev. Chuck Smith recently held another of the mass baptisms that have made his Calvary Chapel at Santa Ana famous. Under a setting sun, several hundred converts waded into the cold Pacific, patiently waiting their turn for the rite. On the cliffs above, hundreds more watched. Most...
...viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made cul-de-sacs and all kinds of things to keep people in front of a painting." Selz, 51, who quit his post as a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 to go to Berkeley, is delighted with the building. "I was so tired of boxlike spaces," he explains...
Robert Flynn is one of those theologian-novelists who back their characters up against a dead-end wall and demand their credo or their life. In his latest little parable, Flynn proves he could turn even the Garden of Eden into one of his cul-de-sacs...
...Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy. Nor have two decades on Hollywood's unwritten blacklist enhanced his marketability. But Stander, who left the U.S. in 1964, has achieved extraordinary film success in Europe. He won raves as the mordant mobster in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966). In Italy these days, no spaghetti western is complete without his brutal snarl. He will star in four pictures this year, produce a fifth himself and is currently averaging $5,000 a week. Rome's feline newspapers may mock him as "the world's oldest...