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...solid Nixon Republican who stands 6 ft. 3 in., Jody has already caught the eye of Midwestern politicians. Although Governor Robert Ray was in Spain when Jody was inaugurated, he sent a congratulatory wire. Of course nobody is prouder of Jody's achievement than his fun-loving father Elmer ("They call me toothless Elmer"), whose gas station bears such puckish legends as ELMER'S GYP JOINT and GOD BLESS THIS MORTGAGED STATION...
...that Hackman's star status could command a wide range of roles, he plans to keep right on doing character parts. He will play an aging Midwestern dirt racer in Good Luck, Roy Neal, which will start shooting in July. Next he has his eye on a script about a fireman. In another ten years, he maintains, he may quit acting altogether. "I want to relax, paint, read and maybe even write," he says. "I don't see myself as a distinguished old actor." Perhaps not, but if that Marine captain were to turn up again...
...pave the way for Administration approval of the 789-mile pipeline that the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil companies, wants to build from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez in southern Alaska. Conservationists say that a pipeline across Canada to the Midwestern U.S. would cause less ecological damage from oil spills, and they plan to fight for their view in the courts. The oil companies contend that the trans-Canada route would cost more to build and take longer to complete...
...playing the church organ, working for the P.T.A. She conducts intense sessions with her high-school-level church classes on the war (which she hates) and abortion on demand (which she decidedly favors). She is deeply proud of the life she has carved for herself out of the rich Midwestern soil. "I'm still not sorry I don't have a college education," she says. "Being married and having a family were the most important things for me. I'm very happy with my profession...
Sudsville-usually a small, vaguely Midwestern town-is a highly structured social community and a highly ordered moral universe. Evil is eventually punished there, even if it takes years, and good finally emerges triumphant after a prolonged purgatory. "If a man has an affair," says Nick Nicholson, producer of The Edge of Night on CBS, "he has to have a good reason for it. Then he should feel guilty and suffer so that we can salvage him. Finally, he has to do something noble; then the audience will feel better about him. The bonds of marriage on our show...