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Indian Matinee Idol Dev Anand plays a guide ensnared by a wealthy client's wife, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who is an accomplished snake dancer. He becomes Rosie's manager, and after her debut at a local high school, fame and fortune are theirs. The guide then turns to gambling and debauchery, goes to jail for forgery, ultimately wins redemption when some gullible provincials mistake him for a holy man. Later, the false sadhu fasts and dies a hero after telling a TV interviewer that life has been mostly Rosie...
Updating computer techniques that were tried out on a small scale by the Kennedy forces in 1960, Mad and Dev set out to win the G.O.P. nomination for someone who can beat Lyndon Johnson...
...program their IBM 7094 to divvy up the electorate according to 480 different combinations of occupation, income, race, religion, class, and so on. Then the computer can simulate voter reactions to any candidate, issue or appeal, without even the trouble of opinion polling and all those confusing "undecideds." Mad, Dev and the 7094 are on their way to the unbeatable propaganda mix. All they need is a possible candidate. They find him in John Thatch, an unknown American engineer who is completing a bridge across a jungle ravine on the border between India and Pakistan. He is clear-eyed...
...said Labor Party Leader James Larkin. "He trims his sails to different winds." The greatest challenge that Lemass has to face as a politician is to revitalize drab, unimaginative Fianna Fail, many of whose front-bench heroes of destiny have been around since Dev first came to office. Seven of the 13 members of the Lemass Cabinet are 60 or under, which is a relatively green age in Irish politics but hardly green enough...
Though he has little of the personal magnetism of Old Spellbinder Dev, the Quiet Man's drive to get Ireland into the world's markets and forums has attracted some of the bright, restive young Irishmen who are showing a revival of interest in politics...