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...accidents or acts of God, the rest is foreordained. Next week Diaz Ordaz will be formally nominated at the party convention; he will then "campaign" for six months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...
...story lampoons popular rock-and-roller Conrad Birdie, and the inscrutable American middle class. The Radcliffe production stars Nick Littlefield as the hapless agent with a mother on his back and Ciji Ware as Rose Alverez, Littlefield's lovelorn secretary. Both leads sing pleasantly and dance with style. And Miss Ware's "Shriners" number, a torrid sequence with a buffoon male chorus, almost stops the show...
...last week's Business Equipment Show in Manhattan was a pocket-sized executive finder that buzzes when the hapless executive-loitering in the washroom or on his way downstairs for a quick one-is wanted on the phone...
...blemish on the name of Harvard that must be cleared. As the picture so clearly shows, the call of pass Interference on JERRY MECHLING (24) against SCOTT CREELMAN (88) in quite unjustified. Jerry, as any ref could plainly see, was at least a foot in front of the hapless Creelman, who shows no signs of being hit by Mechling or the football. The pass came in the fourth quarter in Dartmouth's last successful touchdown drive; the interference call brought the ball to Harvard's one-yard line, where Dartmouth scored three plays later...
...channel five, it was the absence of injured Y.A. Tittle that made the difference as the Pittsburgh Steelers pushed the New York Giants all around the 21-inch screen for a 31-0 win. Tittle's replacement, the over-hapless Ralph Guglielmi, looked especially awful as the Giants were shut out for the first time in 10 years. The defense, which held Pittsburgh to 13 points in first half, seemed to lose interest when it became clear that the Giants weren't going to score yesterday...