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...looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night audience included former New York York Mayor Robert Wagner, 65, ex-Governor Averell Harriman, 83, Lauren Bacall, 51, and Gregory Peck, 59. With mezzanine seats selling for $35 each and orchestra seats going for $40, Uris Theater managers expected to take in close to $1 million for the 16 scheduled performances...
...took two wearying months for Wyoming's conservative-minded ex-Governor Stanley K. Hathaway, 51, to get through the grilling from U.S. Senators on his nomination to be Secretary of the Interior. They demanded to know his views on strip mining, oil shale and myriad other environmental issues. As he absorbed the punishment, Hathaway often drummed his fingers on the table...
Georgia Tech, California's ex-Governor Ronald Reagan drew cheers when he blamed "the most irresponsible Congress in our history" for the collapse in Viet Nam. A bitter editorial in the conservative Indianapolis Star declared: "After the Americans of a braver generation destroyed the Nazis and the horrors of concentration camps became known, pictures of the atrocities were published all over Germany with the caption Wessen Schuld??'Who is to blame?' The same question applies today." Such rhetoric raised the question of whether Viet Nam might become a campaign issue in 1976. For Republicans to blame a Democratic Congress...
...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown, 36, the son of ex-Governor (1959-66) Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown. Now California's secretary of state, Brown has frequently put Houston Flournoy, 45, the state's able controller, on the defensive...