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...Peering out from under fierce Irish eyebrows and a flat cap was a thin-faced youth garbed in short trousers, waistcoat, athletic socks and huge clunky boots. "I couldn't believe it," recalls Mills. "He looked like a young Charlie Chaplin." As it turned out, it was a getup that O'Sullivan had cannily contrived to draw attention to himself...
...program of Playwright Robert Shaw's Cato Street in London credited Actress Vanessa Redgrave with cutting the play from four hours to 2½. In her getup for her role of Susan Thistlewood-a radical conspirator of 1820-Miss Redgrave looked capable of cutting just about anything she set her hand to. In any case, Cato Street ended its run, leaving Redgrave watchers with nothing but a memorable pinup...
...circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself," he later told reporters. "But I was told it was much too dangerous...
...Democrats were running. He promised "free everything for everybody." As for the marijuana and LSD problem, he said, "I would utilize laws governing fraud, truth in packaging and price fixing to ensure quality goods at reasonable prices." Such talk-and Kimball's hairy, earring-in-the-left-ear getup-so scared the good folk of Douglas County that nearly double the usual number of off-year election voters turned out to defeat him, 14,725 to 2,089. But they overlooked another hippie candidate, Phillip Hill, 22, who ran so quietly for justice of the peace that...
...part of their rock-group image, Michael Jackson and Barry Barnes wore long hair, sideburns and mustaches. Authorities at their Nashville, Tenn., high school did not dig the getup and suspended the boys. Arguing that the hair was necessary to their musical careers and in any case was protected by the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee, Jackson and Barnes went to court. But neither trial nor appeals judges were turned on by the musicians' plaint. Last week the Supreme Court also turned a deaf ear; so the school's long-hair ban stands. Four months...