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...FRED ASTAIRE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Back on TV for his first musical special in eight years, Astaire and Co-Star Barrie Chase sing and dance to today's sounds, provided by Simon and Garfunkel, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, the Gordian Knot, the Young-Holt Trio and Neal Hefti and his orchestra...
...boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy, pushing for more government-aided health services, larger old-age pensions...
...foreign policy, Gorton will not only continue Holt's support of the U.S. policy in Viet Nam but possibly even step up the Australian commitment, now running at 8,000 men. The tall, tanned Prime Minister hopes to establish the same kind of "unique" relationship with President Johnson that Holt enjoyed. "I believe aggression must be stopped anywhere it takes place," he says. "It doesn't matter what sort of aggression. We must show that it does...
...switched to the Liberal Party and won a seat in the federal Senate. Since then, he has served only in junior ministerial slots in Australia's Liberal-Country Party coalition, which has ruled the country since 1949; he headed up the navy, interior and works ministries, and at Holt's death was Minister of Science and Education...
...After Holt's death, the Liberal leadership-and prime ministership-seemed far more likely to go to Deputy Party Leader William McMahon, Holt's treasurer and second-in-command. But Interim Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party and a longtime personal rival of McMahon, warned that he would bolt the coalition if the Liberals chose McMahon. Amid the resulting party turmoil, Gorton went quickly to work gathering support for his own drive, and gained a full week on everyone else. By the time last week's Liberal Party convention opened in Canberra...