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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spence Taylor and Herb Larsen provide comic relief to comic relief in the Shakespearean characters of Henry, an aging, vain, forgettable actor and his companion Mortimer, whose specialty is spectacularly acrobatic feigned death. They are hilarious in their early scenes, and successfully make the transformation to guileful roughnecks in the second...
Most of those well-known characters-the real-life participants in Watergate-were not talking about the series. Some of them, like H.R. Haldeman, portrayed by Robert Vaughn with cool viciousness, are now in prison. Surprisingly, one who comes to Haldeman's defense is Herb Klein, communications director for 5½ years in the Nixon White House, who eventually quit as the Watergate investigations were growing. Says he: "The overcentered power of Haldeman is inaccurate. He's a tough guy who ran a tight ship, but he wasn't a Nazi dictator." The fictional Klein character...
...York City, ran "Glimpses of Begin," a sympathetic report on his folksy personal side designed to counter the "terrorist" image. "We didn't feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly St. Louis Jewish Light. But other editors put it differently. Says Herb Brin, editor of the Heritage and Southwest Jewish Press in Los Angeles: "We've done drumhammer support for him. We refuse to bend." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israel lobby in Washington, rushed out a two-page white paper claiming that Begin's reputation...
...Herb Kawainui Kane...
...claim they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York Times agrees, and California Governor Jerry Brown believes that people should...