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Conservative Republicans continued to be concerned at Lindsay's fling with the left. Their misgivings could hardly be eased by his reaction to a bombshell tossed last week by New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Rocky vetoed a bill that would have empowered a 17-member corporation to handle the $16 million in anti-poverty funds that the Federal Government is offering the city. He said the new agency would be a "supergovernmental corporation" that could "supersede all state laws which are inconsistent with its provisions." Many Republicans praised the Governor, but Lindsay, according to an aide...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...
Purists and prudes insist the last labial touch should be a chaste left-right-left to the cheek. But last week, as Munich's two-month pre-Lenten fling of Fasching came to a final, beery crescendo, the partners were directly on target...
...Little Hocus-Pocus." The self-styled "Wizard of Clubs," Paul Hahn, 46, is the world's acknowledged expert at "devious ways of hitting the ball." A teaching pro since he was 18, Hahn took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously...
...Lovers' scenario might have been the banal tale of any tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both mystic and realistic, to try to film both the passion and the poetry of love. The resulting sequence is by now duly celebrated in the annals of film. It follows the lovers from bedroom to bath tub and back to bed again, missing very little, zeroing in on Moreau...