Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arte Johnson, 39, from Chicago, is described by Martin as "the man with a thousand faces, which makes bed check difficult after some of the cast parties." Johnson, who used to do TV commercials and cartoon voices, makes as many as ten complete costume changes each show. He appears as a double-talking Russian, a freaked-out Swede, the German soldier ("Verrry interesting"), a dirty old man and a guru ("Man who speaketh with forked tongue should never kiss a balloon...
...Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler, is a sprawling, episodic semi-documentary that traces the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. In the play he is called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...
Nixon, on the other hand, contends that prosperity is not nearly what it seems-and that rising prices and taxes take away all of the wage gains. For months, he has been blaming the Johnson Administration for causing inflation by mismanaging the economy. "Why are prices rising faster than they have in a generation?" he asks. "Why is the American dollar viewed with greater suspicion in the central banks of Europe than it has been for a century? Why is the American taxpayer groaning under the heaviest tax burden in history? Because for five years the Administration has refused...
Forceful Bargaining. Much of the surge in prices is attributable to soaring wages, which companies have decided to let the customers pay for. President Johnson tried, without success, to hold organized labor's annual contract increases to 3.2%. This year, the raises are more on the order...
...classification that will shut out the under-16 market? Next year will tell. At least the producer will have the option of appealing to a board headed by Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti. Mr. Valenti's credentials for making moral judgements aren't bad; he left the Johnson Administration two and a half years...