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...main impression, however, is one of noise-loud, blasting, unrelenting rock 'n' roll from the Gordian Knot, The Factory's regular weekday band-and familiar faces. Any night the whirling dervishes can include Roz Russell, Barbra Streisand, Sonny and Cher, Dress Designer Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which...
...FRED ASTAIRE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Back on TV for his first musical special in eight years, Astaire and Co-Star Barrie Chase sing and dance to today's sounds, provided by Simon and Garfunkel, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, the Gordian Knot, the Young-Holt Trio and Neal Hefti and his orchestra...
...Supreme Court has slashed through the Gordian knot of legal complications entangling the election of Georgia's next governor by ruling that the state legislature can choose between Democrat Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...
Cutting the Knot. Boyd faces a formidable task. He will attempt to unscramble the world's biggest, most bitterly competitive transportation complex, a Gordian knot of railroads (214,650 miles), airline routes (280,696 miles), and highways (3,600,000 miles). To cut the knot, Boyd's department aims to coordinate the responsibilities of 31 federal agencies. With 91,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget, he will run the Government's fifth-largest department...
Mayor Collins has come up with a means of cutting this Gordian knot of politics and red tape. The Adinolfi Report, commissioned by Collins and released last week, proposes that a new city agency be formed to plan and construct all municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues...