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...Rocky is not without political resources. Still the nation's foremost Republican moderate, he refused to take himself out of the 1976 presidential race when he was questioned at his press conference. If Ronald Reagan upsets Ford in the early primaries, and forces him out of the running, it is conceivable that Rocky would enter the race. In part, Rockefeller dropped off the ticket because he did not want to continue to feed ammunition to the Republican right-what he calls "a minority of a minority." He feels that nothing less than the salvation of the Republican Party...
...duffer makeup by Dick Smith (of The Godfather), is at some pains to be cute while he is at his most irascible. His portrait of Willy is too selfconscious, too deliberately insinuating. But George Burns, rasping and lively-eyed, makes a fine Al. Burns, 79, has always been the foremost purveyor of the sideways insult that comes in low and inside before it hits the mark. He has added just for the occasion a diabolical ingenuousness, which can raise hackles and laughter in equal, generous measure...
There was a cardinal rule to successful "popcorneering"--sell only on the visitors' side of the stadium. One can sell just as much, the walk back to Carey Cage is shorter, but foremost you didn't have to put up with those "funny" wiseass Harvard guys...
...promoting her latest film, Poopsie and Company. Can it be that the rumors about the Pontis' marriage are wrong? "I never snap at Carlo because he is always right" was all the serene Sophia would venture. As lines like that indicate, Sophia is not the world's foremost feminist. When the suggestion came up that the actress is regarded as a sex symbol, she answered: "I am a woman, mother and wife. If that means I am a sex symbol...
...Soviet Union--which has the highest per capita consumption rate in the world--courtesy of a National Institute of Health grant. A book will follow, with a companion volume written by Boris Segal, now a member of the center and an exiled dissident who was the Soviet Union's foremost expert on alcoholism, Powell says. (Every one at the center is said to be foremost in something by somebody, like Harvard's freshman class...