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...kick around in the campaign, all will run on an anti-Lindsay platform. The leading contender is City Controller Abe Beame, 67, a reliable if unexciting party wheelhorse. A fiscal conservative who is described by a state legislator as a "1950s liberal," Beame recalls for many New Yorkers a happier, more secure era. Competing with Beame for the moderate-to-conservative vote is Mario Biaggi, 55, a flamboyant, three-term Congressman who is the most decorated policeman in the city's history...
...certain smoky beauty, as if she were being observed through several layers of gauzy bandage. But her charms are, alas, merely photographable. Rosalie's mysterious appeal remains elusive, so it is difficult to see what exactly drives Cesar and David into such genteel frenzies. They would probably be happier with each other anyway...
...magazine had been a showplace for fine writers for more than a decade. Now, it had a fan letter from the Papa of them all. "I'm very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE," said the letter. "That makes me much happier than to have a Nobel Prize. To have you guys being so careful and good about it and so thoughtful is better than any kind of prize." Ernest Hemingway would wait two years for the Nobel: the guys made The Old Man and the Sea a part of literary history...
Some of the week's visitors left happier than they arrived. One rumor had it that Kenneth Rush, currently Deputy Secretary of Defense, might get the top job in his department, succeeding Laird. But there were even stronger rumors that the job might go to HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson, who might also a) stay in his present post or b) move on to Justice. Out of the running for any Cabinet job, it seemed, was Nelson Rockefeller; last week he told the President that he would prefer to stay on in New York and, possibly, run for a sixth...
...laughter, waiting guiltily for each new joke or comical incident, wondering who I was to laugh at the tragedy of mutilated minds, twisted psyches and lobotomized egos. In the book, laughter had come as relief from too much suffering, for both the characters and the reader, and accompanied the happier episodes of McMurphy's struggle against authority and self-surrender. On stage, the inmates become caricatures and the plot a rather lengthy bout with laughing...