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...zany half of the comedy duo that glued Americans to their TV sets with catchphrases like "Sock it to me!," Dick Martin and his partner, Dan Rowan, turned their hilarious and unhinged routine into a smash hit with Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The variety show debuted in 1968 and ran for five years. Before that, the duo had spent a decade honing their act in clubs from Miami to Las Vegas. "We were raw," Martin once said of that period, "but we looked good together, and we were funny." He later directed sitcoms, helming episodes of Family Ties...
...adjacent acres (about 800 hectares), enough to start thinking about putting in a golf course and even a theme park--bad ideas that he abandoned. Instead, two years ago he opened the Pavilion Stage there, an outdoor concert venue whose lineup this summer includes Cyndi Lauper, Steely Dan and Tony Bennett. The museum, which hopes to attract 90,000 visitors in its first year, is the second major element in what's now called the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts...
...McCain wants a thorough process to ensure a running mate who is well prepared. In an interview on his campaign bus in early April, McCain described Dan Quayle, who served as vice president from 1989 until 1993, as a cautionary tale. He said that while he liked Quayle, he felt the former vice president had "not been briefed and prepared for some of the questions...
...does the Democratic Party have superdelegates? Dan Moreman Jr. SHREVEPORT...
...that kind of talk that has people in Washington worried. Aides to Democratic leaders on the Hill fear that Bush may be planning to bomb Iran between November and January, after the political cost goes down and when he may feel he is doing his successor a favor. Dan Senor, former military spokesman and foreign policy advisor to the Bush Administration, says he finds that scenario highly unlikely, because he believes it would provoke numerous resignations from the intelligence community and the armed services, both of which groups feel burned from the Iraq experience. Senor may be right, but there...