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...clincher came at a ham-and-eggs breakfast last week with Republican Senators in the Capitol's Vandenberg Room. Rockefeller had anticipated that 25 of the Senate's 36 Republicans might show up to offer various degrees of support for his candidacy; only 17 appeared, most of them clearly cool to a Rockefeller presidency. Only Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, New York's Javits and Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who hoped to be Rocky's campaign manager) were openly declared Rocky supporters. What rent the Rock more than anything was the suggestion from several...
...Elis. Already considered the best college player in the East, Dell had made an excellent showing on the tournament circuit the previous summer. In one tournament he had beaten world-ranked Ashley Cooper in straight sets in the semi-finals and had lost a close, five-set match to Ham Richards in the finals. Further evidence of Yale's power showed in the fact that Gene Scott, who later joined Dell on the Davis Cup team, was then only fourth singles...
...insecure womanizer (Jack Warden) who, upon hearing the bad news while in bed with his girl, dutifully removes his toupee; an oleaginous scholar of comic books (Sorrell Booke); and a Talmudic professor-lecturer (Joseph Wiseman) who wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham...
POPSI Project. With some reason, the FCC can answer its critics with the defense that its jurisdiction-the entire publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum-is just unmanageable on a $19 million pittance of a budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications...
...bothers to act in one of these things, but Paterson and Clark ham it up nicely throughout, Roger Kozol as Boris a little more nicely, and David Foster (Kate's irremediably ugly Nanny) best of all. Kate herself (Frank Reece) pants well and is contagiously eager, though a singer...