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Japanese Analogy. Republican voters this year seemed unconcerned by his late coming to their party. If Hayakawa's campaign rhetoric was less than sensational, Finch's was downright dull. Hayakawa answered questions about his age with an allusion to his ancestral homeland: "Before World War II in Japan they killed off all the older politicians. All that were left were the damn fools who attacked Pearl Harbor. I think that this country needs elder statesmen too." If that rather strained analogy does not help, the age issue is reduced by the fact that he still tap-dances...
...government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking and is identified with the more moderate wing of the ruling Congress Party (TIME...
Some school boards are beginning to get downright unreasonable about requirements for a high school diploma. Just two months ago, the New York State Board of Regents agreed unanimously that the state's high school pupils should pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate (TIME, April...
...coach of the Northeastern women's varsity tennis team was pretty upset yesterday when Radcliffe threw its junior varsity against her charges. Her anger turned to downright embarrasment though, when the 'Cliffe J.V. netters took the match, 4-3, at the soggy Soldiers Field courts...
There is, at least, the core of a good Hitchcock concept buried in the film. Two couples, one a little shady, the other downright criminal, pursue each other for purposes that are mutually misunderstood and increasingly scary. Lumley and his girl Blanche (Barbara Harris) divine a way to get rich through one of her clients, wealthy matron Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Miss Rainbird wants to find her dead sister's illegitimate child, who was turned out of the family years before, and make restitution. If Blanche can use her spiritual powers to track down the heir, there...