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...Says he: "Most people are doing children's shows until something better comes along. I never had a desire to do programs for adults. Children are a very warm audience." Keeshan (formerly Clarabelle the Clown on Howdy Doody) uses the Walter Cronkite approach, addressing the camera directly. His Miltown mood indicates that if the sky were falling, it would be about as important as a broken crayon. The gentleness tends to reassure parents, but children are more often caught up in the lively puppet sequences by Cosmo Alegretti. "We program the gentle side of life," claims Keeshan, an approach that...
...shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested in the body out here. The California businessman is a rounded guy." I watch Mahoney stroll through the ferns and I wonder . . . maybe his bottom drawer really is free of Gelusils and Miltown. But what about the executives on the lower level? Are they quite as ulcer-and-anxiety free? Where, after all, do California psychiatrists find their patients...
...long since become a cliche to talk of the caution and deliberation of Richard Nixon's presidency, which sometimes makes the White House seem like Miltown Mansion. But last week, for a change, the people's business was humming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on Capitol Hill at a tempo brisker than any heard since Lyndon Johnson's happiest days?and the tune was pretty much the President's. Nixon returned to the capital early in the week from his round-the-world tour with stops in Asia and Rumania; six days later, he flew to California for a month...
...pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom he accused of multiplying the city's problems. Wagner's style is more Miltown than Fun City, and there were politicians who were betting that quiet is just what many of the city's white middle- and working-class voters will want after four turbulent years under Lindsay...
...most of his press conference last week, the President seemed unwontedly subdued, as if he had prepared himself with one Miltown too many. Then a newsman asked him about that vexed, vexatious tax bill, and Lyndon Johnson all at once was his old self again. For eight gesticulatory minutes-more than twice the time he devoted to the subject of peace talks-he laced into Capitol Hill economizers and urged Congressmen to "stand up like men" and vote, to "bite the bullet" no matter how much it hurt. Oddly enough, until he spoke, they had seemed ready to do just...