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Carmine De Sapio and the borough bosses already controlled about 600 votes, with only 572 needed to nominate their candidate. That being so, they would have none of Tom Murray. But De Sapio was willing to try to avoid an open, party-fracturing break with Harriman. Efforts to find a compromise candidate inevitably turned to New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, popular in the city and upstate with both the liberal amateurs and the professionals...
...Waterberg. Soon his fiercely Calvinist insistence on quoting Biblical chapter and verse that he thought supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they could find no defense against his blunt, brutal singleness of purpose. "With Hans," said Afrikaners happily, "you know where...
...Donato at first seeks mere companionship with Maria. He sings: "May I touch your face? My touch is as harmless as a glance." But within a month they are lovers. Blinded further by jealousy, Donato visualizes imagined rivals. "When I had my eyes, I could close them and find peace. Now I imagine things. I see things." His love turns into hate, first suicidal, then homicidal. In the final scene, after Maria's husband has returned, Donato's mother motions Maria out of harm's way, aims the pistol in Donato's hand at a blank...
...chances of more such subsidies or tax relief are good. Last week eight U.S. Senators from heavily suburban New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut sent a plea to the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to find a solution to commuter woes, urged "that the Federal Government not preside over the liquidation of vital railroad services." But rather than federal aid or higher fares, the Interstate Commerce Commission believes that more local subsidies for rails are the solution. Says ICC Chairman Howard Freas: "If an urban or interurban commuting service needs subsidizing, it should be by the communities served...
Married. Ann Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...