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...consummate professional skill. The impression was heightened by his birthday-week decision to wear plastic-rimmed spectacles, which make him look older, instead of the contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked for all the world like a genial Foxy Grandpa...
...games at the Astrodome. He treats his wife to dinner out on Saturday evenings, takes the family to a nearby Episcopal church on Sundays, and tries to get in some golf when he can. When visitors drop in, he likes to tend bar, specializing in frozen daiquiris. An adventurous eater, he makes a point of ordering buffalo steak and chocolate-covered beans when such delicacies are available...
...press conference was scheduled for 12:30. At that time, some 200 newsmen were awaiting his presence in the East Room of the White House. Already set up was what the journalists have dubbed the "people eater"-a television camera, set almost eye-to-nose in front of the President, with teleprompting devices attached. Above the President's head was an umbrellalike aluminum reflector into which the flood lights were focused. The idea was to protect the President's eyes, and to help erase the worry lines from his face. As it turned out, he looked fine...
Turning the Tables. The granddaddy of all sporting sharks is the great white shark, the world's biggest and most dangerous game fish-usually known simply as "the man-eater." A true monster that grows to 35 ft. and possibly 8,000 Ibs., the white shark has devoured swimmers in such diverse locations as Matawan, N.J., the Gulf of Mexico, and Portsea, Australia. The rod-and-reel record is a 2,664-pounder landed by Australian Fruit Farmer Alf Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed...
...appreciate the fairness of your report on my movie-reviewing career [May 14]. I should like to clarify one point: my description of the "cowlike creature" in The Pumpkin Eater applied to the character and not to Anne Bancroft, an actress I respect...