Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebullience, Rockefeller knows that without a big break his chances may be doomed. There were a few hopeful signs, but nothing that was important enough to slow down Nixon's momentum. The South Dakota poll showed Rocky as the strongest candidate for President, despite Nixon's victory in last month's uncontested primary there. He got a good word from Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who called him the best candidate still on the political scene...
...should Rosemary's Baby be any good? A facile author thinks it would be fun to put a coven of witches in the Dakota (a fortress-like New York apartment house), writes a best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously...
...North Dakota (25): When delegates are chosen next week, 18 are expected to line up with Humphrey, 5 with McCarthy and 2 uncommitted...
...South Dakota (26): All Kennedy delegates, now uncommitted...
Satan-May-Care. As Rosemary Woodhouse, she and her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) are delighted to find an apartment in the Branford, a penumbral old fortress of an apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West, modeled on the real-life Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (where some of the exterior scenes were shot). Rosemary's bookish old father figure, Hutch (Maurice Evans), is not too pleased; the Branford, he notes, has an unsavory history of suicides and diabolical doings, including the murder of a notorious Satanist...