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Here and there, interesting camera work gives the film a professional gloss. But even such seasoned performers as Lindfors and Berghof falter before the pervasive foolishness of a script that asks them...
...strength began to falter in the early '50s, and in 1952 he announced he would retire. Rather than leave Washington, Connally joined a law firm, used his office mostly for a spot to jaw with old pals about politics. He visited Capitol Hill regularly for a while. But more and more of his old friends disappeared. Feeble and ailing, he only went to the Capitol to have his hair cut-because the barbers there knew how to cut it just right. A couple of years ago, on one of his last trips to the Hill, he said sadly...
...glistening figure on the podium, a cheerful and gentle master of his art. He built the Houston Symphony to 90 by adding a crucial six string players, built attendance to 333,000 last season by playing a rich but likable repertory. His best talent is for teaching. When cellists falter, he does not hesitate, but takes the instrument himself and says: "If you don't mind an old fellow's advice, sweetheart, don't you think that's better...
...national award consists in part of an engraved medallion suitable for mounting in a cab. Whether he receives it or not, Sundquist does not expect to become a folk here. As he realises, any attempt to idolise him would falter is the face of compromising facts, like "why I dreve the gay around all day when I knew he was psy chopathic...
Goldwater and Rockefeller remain the names most frequently mentioned in talk about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. But if both Barry and Rocky were to falter, the most likely G.O.P. choice would be either Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Both took office last January, replacing Democratic governors in key states with staggering economic problems. How each has met those problems may yet dictate the choice of next year's G.O.P. nominee. An interim report on their gubernatorial records...