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...rest to hot hands and ham instincts. In a plot that tingles with incentives, "the five richest men in the territory" converge on a poky frontier town for their annual poker classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda, walks out on his daughter's wedding, and Lawyer Kevin McCarthy leaves a client's neck in the noose...
Deep Freeze. "Where a European will consult the concierge, Americans seem to turn naturally to their consuls," notes a leading Belgian mortician. It is well that they do, for repatriation is bound up in bewildering red tape and conflicting customs. In Catholic Portugal, for instance, there is no cremation, and embalming must be done by a physician (for fees ranging up to $800). In Italy, where burial customs are still an antiquated lot, the wooden coffins must be a hard-to-obtain three centimeters thick. In France, the coffin must be sealed in the presence of the police...
Until Sorensen took over, Omaha had experienced four of the stormiest years in its political history. Under James J. Dworak, a bow-tied mortician before he became mayor in 1961, the city's pressing problems, from slum housing to rotting sewage pipes, were left to marinate in what the Omaha World-Herald called a "swamp of stagnation." Dworak's reign was marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over...
...satire of love and death in southern California. The hero is still a bumptious English poet (Robert Morse) employed at the Hap pier Hunting Ground pet cemetery. He woos a corpse cosmetician named Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer), who is beloved by her boss, Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger), the chief mortician at Whispering Glades memorial park. Ultimately disillusioned in love, Aimee commits suicide by injection, apparently embalming herself at the same time...
...solidest voting bloc in Congress. The 58 non-Southern-bloc freshman Democrats differ greatly. Oklahoma's Jed Johnson is 25, while Iowa's John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion, is a muscular 205-pounder; and Hawaii's Patsy Mink, the prettiest of the lot, is a petite 5 ft. 1. But they have one thing in common: all are in President Johnson's political...