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...Then of course he meets the girl he can't have, a hoofer (Juliet Prowse) in a Frankfurt Kabarett, and makes a bet he can "get his foot in the door" before the week is out. He wins the bet, loses the girl, wins her back at the fade. Time and again the scriptwriters run out of ideas, and whenever that happens Elvis just hauls off and belts a ballad. There are ten of them, and every last one is goshawful. The dialogue is not much better. She: "How can I ever repay...
Almost immediately, the cry for change arose. As the two-party system began to evolve, the idealistic concept of elite electors deliberating over the choice of the best man began to fade. Reformers demanded that the electors be chosen and bound by popular vote. State legislatures surrendered their privilege of choosing the electors, gave in to a new system by which political parties nominated electors and the people voted for them. Over the years, the electors became mere automatons to carry out the public will. One by one, the states adopted the custom of casting all their electoral ballots...
...seriously." Morbleu! he wonders. What more does the girl want? "A baby." The hero pales at the thought of marriage and fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged-but the rival gets cold feet, and at the fade hero tenderly promises heroine that some day, surrounded by all the children her heart desires, she may even have a wedding...
...Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota's 11 electoral votes-enough to put him over the top according to most calculations, come what might in California. But then Kennedy's margin began to fade in Illinois as downstate votes came in. Nixon refused to quit...
...government polls show, U.S. Prestige has declined, because we have "given an image of reaching middle age and beginning to fade...