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...TIME BUCK WHITE starts as a genial put-on with five officers of a Black Power group ricocheting around the stage in an orgy of black humor. It becomes a cold put-down with the arrival at the lectern of Dick Williams as Buck White. Answering questions from the audience that are designed to give Whitey the message about Black Power, he is more of a bore than a bombshell after the antics of the five clowns. The entire cast has been with the play since the beginning-including a four-month run in Los Angeles' embattled Watts district...
Dreams of Broadies. Yet the Packers come through as genial a bunch of sadomasochists as one could hope to meet. "Dr." Willie Davis, so named because he "made the women feel so good"; Max McGee, the eternal bachelor, dreaming of "a herd of broadies grazing on martinis"; Bart Starr, the resident nice guy. The types, allowing weight for age, can be found in all the best schoolboy fiction...
During three terms as Governor, Hughes established himself both as an outstanding liberal and a formidable vote-getter. When he decided to run for the U.S. Senate at the urging of the late Robert Kennedy, Republican Incumbent Hickenlooper decided to retire. Pitted against Hughes, a genial 6-ft 2-in., 230-lb. giant, is moderate Republican David Stanley, 40, an able state legislator. At one point, Hughes looked like a sure bet. But he now figures he will need 150,000 to 200,000 votes from Republicans to save himself. Conceded Hughes last week: "It's going to require...
Older men, with guitars slung over their suitcoats, they made very fine country and blues. Soothing, mellow music, like "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "Make the World Go Away." The candidate hadn't come yet, and Sam was doing his genial best to set the mood...
...also a genial, personable man, as was evident from watching him campaign for several hours. In Madison, a small farm town in the eastern part of the state, he chatted easily yesterday with voters on Main Street and appeared to know many of them personally. He spoke about low farm prices and his opposition to the administration farm and foreign policies...