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...THREE GOLF (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Last in a series of four matches between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player competing for $50,000. Filmed at the Dorado Beach Golf Club in Puerto Rico...
...third term as Governor in 1966, Rockefeller and his closest advisers have believed that any overt move for the G.O.P. presidential nomination would 1) foreclose any hope of his winning it, and 2) seriously damage any other moderate candidate's chance. During a 1966 post-election vacation at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, Rockefeller outlined a plan to fuse factions in the national party from the center leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies and a candidate. The 25 Republican Governors (now 26) were to be the spearhead of the movement...
While the Dorado Beach strategy did not take the mainland by storm, it was a viable working plan as long as Romney remained afloat. But premature and excessive exposure, clumsy articulation of ideas and downright ineptness, especially the "brainwashing" blooper, dissipated his early popularity. After his withdrawal, Romney volunteered that he had entered the competition before fully developing his positions...
...Dorado by Howard Hawks. As Hawks reaches full maturity, his films increasingly synthesize all the elements of his previous work. El Dorado begins as epic tragedy, yet drifts unerringly into an intense and personal comedy where physical infirmity must be overcome in order to justify friendship and retain an all-important self-respect. The shift in El Dorado's tone is ironically matched by Hawks' stylization: the potential tragedy is played almost entirely in bright daylight, and as the mood of the film lightens, El Dorado moves into a rich and sombre darkness, pointing up the seriousness of Hawks' vision...
Suspended Sales. Even though John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. has just increased its underwriting from $7,000,000 to $14.5 million, construction has slowed to a near standstill at six-year-old El Dorado Hills, a 10,000-acre new town 25 miles east of Sacramento. Ross Cortese, one of the nation's foremost developers of self-contained retirement villages, was forced to suspend sales and refund some down payments recently at four of his "Leisure World" communities in Maryland, New Jersey and California. To reduce his heavy land-carrying costs, he is also trying to sell...