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...every government excursion into consumerism has been a rousing success. Most disappointing has been the Nixon Administration's Office of Consumer Affairs, headed by Virginia Knauer, a pleasant Philadelphia matron who has been a muted consumer champion. On the whole, though, the new consumer centurions are active and able. Some notable examples...
...Jesse Jackson walked the corridors with Wallace delegates. Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Breslin. Germaine Greer, Robert (UNCLE) Vaughan, all these as well as unprecedented numbers of blacks, women, and young delegates converged in the same hall. The gathering prompted incredulity, like that experienced by the peach-slacked Miami matron who walked her sequined-collared toy poodle into the midst of the SDS march to confront the Democratic National Committee: "This can't be happening here. This is Miami Beach...
Died. Dame Margaret Rutherford, 80, dotty, indomitable English matron of stage and screen for nearly four decades; of pneumonia; in Buckinghamshire, England. Rutherford was past 40 by the time she graduated from bit parts in the provinces to stage roles in London's West End. Despite her late start, she appeared in more than 100 major plays and 35 films, and her role in The V.I.P.s earned her a 1964 Academy Award...
Norah (Shirley MacLaine) is rich, divorced, anxious, a woman fighting a losing battle against becoming a matron. A familiar enough character, but one with an odd quirk: Norah has an uncommon affection for her younger brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a shabby flat in the middle of a forbidding Manhattan slum. "Why do you live down there with those people?" Norah nags, but Joel only grins...
...vivacity on board. Pretty Patty Sines of West Virginia, in her mid-20s and traveling alone, quickly became the belle of the bateau, bouncing around barefooted and in hot pants by day and in clinging dresses at night. She so contrasted with the other passengers that one American matron inquired: "Tell me, dear, did the French Line pay your way on board to liven things...