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...issue like this one would be complete without Larry McMurtry, the best known writer produced by Texas in the last decade McMurtry's novels (Hud. The Last Picture Show) are generally dull and mediocre, but his Atlantic, article. "The Texas Moon, and Elsewhere," is an incisive exploration of the Texas character, and the strongest article in the issue. Carefully shunning the innumerable cliches about cowboys, oil and braggadocio that make up the prevailing image of the state even among Texans, McMurtry acts as the critic he feels Texas has always lacked. An expatriate now living in Washington. D.C., he returned...
Crippled as it is, Paterson cannot solve its own problems. Urban renewal, the blind arm of the federal bureaucracy, cannot save it--Kramer's experience with HUD, which Norwood documents, demonstrates the insensitivity of federal aid to cities. But revenue sharing, which put money in the hands of the people who have already failed to manage the city, is not the answer either. We leave Paterson in confusion, clinging, like Sam Patch, to a belief in the spirit of a city that has persevered...
...Hud [1963] Paul Newman as a rich, arrogant Texan. With Oscar-winning performances from Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. Ch. 7, 11:45 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...return Gurney and two of his aides, with the help of two local HUD officials, supposedly channeled mortgage insurance housing-project contracts to those kicking in. The indictment also charges that Gurney "corruptly solicited and accepted" a fifth-floor ocean-front apartment in a Vero Beach condominium in return for pressuring HUD to give the developer mortgage insurance...
...income tax evasion and agreed to testify against the Senator. The grand jury heard enough evidence to charge Gurney with seven felonies, including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts of perjury. His two aides and the two helpful HUD officials were also indicted, as were two former officers of Florida's Republican Party-Earl M. Crittenden, onetime state G.O.P. chairman, and George Anderson, former state party treasurer. If convicted, Gurney faces up to 42 years in prison and fines of at least...