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Waving Confederate flags, emitting Rebel yells, and sipping beer from paper cups, spectators at the big raceway in Darlington, S.C., waited with genial impatience last week for the start of the Southern 500, a classic stock-car event. They barely noticed the tall, lean man whose neat blue and white seersucker suit contrasted sharply with the bib overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience...
...Chirac's place, the President put a much more genial soul. Formerly Minister of Foreign Trade and for five years Vice President of the European Economic Commission, Barre was notable in the world of Gaullist grandeur for living in a small, book-lined apartment, driving an old Citroën and carrying his own luggage. A portly ex-professor, Barre is highly regarded in academic circles for his textbook entitled Economic Politique. Giscard called him "the best economist in France and therefore the best man to fight the inflation." Barre is expected to initiate spartan economic measures, like higher...
Died. Ted Mack, 72, genial, soft-spoken host of television's Original Amateur Hour; of cancer; in North Tarrytown, N.Y. A bandleader in the 1920s, he started as talent scout for the radio version of the Amateur Hour in 1935, serving its late (1946) legendary M.C., Major Edward Bowes. Amateur Hour went on TV in 1948, and Mack ran the show until it died because of poor ratings in 1970. Among the future stars the show presented: Beverly Sills, Maria Callas, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, and a skinny New Jersey kid named Frank Sinatra. Mack missed a couple...
...crowd. Taking Don Murray's old role in Bus Stop is just a passing thing for him. Travolta is best known as Vinnie Barbarino, the tough, macho "Sweathog" in ABC's hit series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show is an updated version of Happy Days, a genial exercise in instant nostalgia, and Vinnie Barbarino is barely distinguishable from Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. the Fonz, who made Henry Winkler famous. As it happens, Travolta even resembles Winkler...
Another problem is Ford's campaign chairman, Rogers Morton, who remarked on TV as the grim results rolled in from Nebraska: "I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic." The genial Morton has not had conspicuous success in organizing Ford's campaign; in general, he remains the glad-handing front man while decisions are made by Political Director Stuart Spencer...