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Doty would not specify the contents of his first draft, but there are indications that the final report will be somewhat conservative, and lean toward the status...
Hither & Ives. Now and then a new Hollywood girl shows bomblike possibilities, notably Yvette Mimieux. But an explosion is unlikely to occur. A new sex goddess would have to get multiple goddess roles. Fewer movies are being made, and when the plump parts come, the lean girls seem to get them: the best sex role in recent years is Irma La Douce, yet it is played by Shirley MacLaine, whose deep decolletage cannot conceal the clean-cut kookie girl beneath...
...fans have been waiting a long time for a team like this year's. The Terriers have 6 ft. 3 in. Randy Cross, who set a sophomore scoring mark last year, averaging 18.2 points per game. They've got a premium playmaker in 5 ft. 6 in. Ken Lean, And if that's not enough, they have 6 ft. 9 in. Dick Moreshead, who pulled down an average of 15.4 rebounds per game last season--14th best in the nation...
...Scotland's University of Edinburgh. Then he announced that he had been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...
...apparently thinks that a self-righteous book will cure his guilt. He argues that, as a writer, he should not have been treated as just another businessman with a more or less predictable income. He had been poor (though during his lean years he paid for a divorce instead of taxes), and when for one year (on the royalties of his gamy novel, Memoirs of Hecate County) he had the income of a small businessman, he should not have been taxed as if his money were an annual affair...