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...plot is silly-surreal. A white U.S. she wolf named Beclch (Sharon Gans) becomes the vampire queen of an African tribe. She is a voracious, paganly sadistic earth mother; her husband (Jerome Dempsey) is an earthworm. To secure her rise to power, she coaxes him into contracting elephantiasis, which the natives regard as a symbol of regal divinity. He is a king in name and pain only, as she promptly betrays him with a kind of virility totem, a bare-torsoed American from Marlbrando country. Deserted by this lover at play's end, the white queen faces beheading...
Urban Crisis. The crisis of the American urban complex, with its rotting center-city core and its increasing demands for intelligent planning as well as financial aid, was another central theme of the Governors' talks. Said Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey: "Connecticut as a whole can be a healthy society only if we join in a concerted effort to improve the quality of urban life." He recommended a new Department of Municipal Affairs, as well as new measures to combat air-and-water pollution and discrimination in jobs and housing. And New York's Rockefeller, whose bailiwick includes...
...edited by William Cole and Mike Thaler. 336 pages. World. $8.95. A collection that synthesizes the wit of the U.S., Britain and the Continent, though with a heavy reliance on The New Yorker and Punch. Just about all the old favorites are here, from Arno to Price to Rose, Dempsey, Cruikshank and Searle...
Connecticut Democrats, led by Governor John Dempsey, wound up retaining every statewide office and all but one congressional seat. New Hampshire's King, who in 1962 became the state's first Democratic Governor in 39 years, won an unprecedented third two-year term - thanks in part to a continuing squabble within the G.O.P. Demo cratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre easily trounced his super-hawkish opponent, retired Brigadier General Harrison Thyng, a World War II and Korean flying ace who had financial backing from such outstate hyperconservatives as Texas Millionaire H. L. Hunt...
...CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR 99% of the vote Dempsey (D) 562,459 Gengras (R) 444,081 U.S. House (6): +1 Republican...