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Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas...
...sure just what new formula would work until Oregon's Edith Green suggested that state and local officials be given the control over local programs that they had long asked for. The leadership agreed, not only mollifying Southerners but also assuring that big-city Democratic machines would throw their all into the battle. The dramatic change had been found. "Bossism and boll weevil!" cried an outraged Charlie Goodell. The remark won his cause few Southern votes...
...addition to the authorization curback, the House voted to accept an amendment offered by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) giving control over Community Action Programs to state, county and city governments. The amendment, which was designed to break up the Dixiecrat-Republican coalition, also received support from big city Democrats...
...vast network of talent scouts, Sullivan's product sells chiefly because it is first with the best. His first show, in 1948, introduced a young comedy team named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Since then, he has presented the U.S. TV debut of such performers as Edith Piaf, Clark Gable, Maria Callas, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Marian Anderson, Julie Andrews, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and the Beatles, not to mention such oddities as Liberace and Rise Stevens singing...
...took only two minutes in the $107,800 Woodward Stakes at New York's Aqueduct race track to convince the few remaining doubters that Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus is 1967's top three-year-old. That became abundantly clear when Damascus flashed under the wire a good 10½lengths ahead of Dr. Fager, who beat him in the Gotham Stakes this April. And that was the least of the triumphs. In their first meeting at the Woodward, Damascus put a quick end to all speculation about whether he was a better-or at least sounder...