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...American managers expect to remain very long. Allende neatly summed up his attitude toward the U.S. during a recent interview; when he was asked whether he would allow Americans to continue running a space-tracking station on Chile's Easter Island in the Pacific, he said with a grin: "Goodbye and good luck...
...black face next appears supported by a clerical collar. Now it is the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. "Reverend!" cries an elder. "There's a blue El Dorado illegally parked outside." The good pastor favors the elder with a seraphic grin. "The Lord smiled down on me in last week's raffle...
Died. Edward Everett Horton, 84, persimmon-faced comedian who starred on stage, screen, radio and TV for more than 60 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. With an apologetic stoop, a wry grin and timely double- (sometimes triple) take, Horton made his comic way through almost 3,000 stage revivals of Springtime for Henry and more than 100 movies, including several with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?). Why so often the supporting roles? Said Horton: "I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid...
...front. From their pickup truck they pulled a squealing porcine mascot. One of the officers told the kids that the pig had a "long name, but we call him Herman for short." Houston's police chief is named Herman Short, and the patrolman's sly grin was not unappreciated...
...audience that he is performing the eternal theatrical ritual, dropping the mask, assuming the myth, becoming the man. He pulls out a bandana and ties it around his neck. He gives his forelock a forward tug. Bowed of leg, lariat twirling, stetson arched back over his forehead and shy grin. It is Will Rogers...