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Muddying the outcome this year, however, are the presidential aspirations of George Wallace-even though no senatorial candidates are running on Wallace's American Independent Party ticket. How those casting ballots for Wallace and Curtis LeMay will vote for other offices, nobody knows. Yet their votes could prove decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Missouri's Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, 39, has been running so hard that he has lost 16 pounds since January, and his trousers sag around his hips. A moody six-footer who chain-smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, Eagleton toppled scandal-tainted Senator Edward Long in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

In this contest of opposites, Eagleton is believed to enjoy a slight edge. But Curtis plods along. "I've never won an election on personality," he readily admits. He is ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, and his expertise in money matters rivals that of anyone in government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

This film, based on Gerold Frank's nonfiction bestseller and shot mostly on location in Boston, confidently supplies the answer. He is Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Between Pathos and Horror | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Whatever the film's shortcomings, Tony Curtis must be adjudged not guilty. In an atypically intelligent and subtle performance, he climbs inside DeSalvo and makes himself astonish ingly at home. Curtis plays the ordinary Albert without his customary flip mannerisms. And as the monster within the skin, he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Between Pathos and Horror | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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