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...Everybody knows that the Negroes hate Goldwater. I suppose King and the other Negro leaders think that after November it will be fine for the riots to begin all over again. They had better wake up, because their idol, President Johnson, just might not make it. In Goldwater we will have a President with all the qualities necessary to make our country safe from Communism and riots...
...nearly so regrettable as leaving a major scene unwritten. Simon Peters, angrily growled by Armand Asselin, changes offstage from the believer in miracles. Thomas's theological opponent, to one who sees the validity of Thomas's doubts. Peter then vows to become a forger of God and perpetuate an idol. The reasons for his transformation are not even implied in this final and crucial confrontation with Thomas...
...Similarities. Remember 1952? There was Bob Taft, Mr. Republican, idol of his party's conservative wing, career politician, leading member of the U.S. Senate, a Midwesterner through and through, an outspoken individualist, who had worked long and hard for the nomination, thought he had it won, and was convinced that he deserved it by reason of service to his party and championship of his cause...
...been my idol from as far back as I can remember. But his failure to say which candidate he favors, even if it's that nut Goldwater, has made Ike look like a senile old Milquetoast...
...first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost twice as high as in the same period last year. Weltner expects further improvement, thanks to such current successes as Becket and Seven Days in May. A small, freckled man who resembles neither a movie mogul nor a matinee idol, Welt ier is a chemist by training who begat, in the darkroom during the early '20s. How did he reach the summit of Paramount's star-ringed mountain? Says Weltner, with a grin: "Longevity, that...