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...film degenerates into flat-out vaudeville buffoonery, but along the way it offers enough laughs to supply an entire season of canned TV comedies. The near-perfect performances of Jackson and Wallach-recreating their stage roles-are augmented by a parade of outstanding character actors. The funniest: Charles Nelson Reilly, as a clock-watching university registrar whose face is a festival of tics...
...while last week it looked as if the G.O.P.'s Big Rs might all appear to gether at a conference on Medicaid in San Francisco. But the prospect was too political to please. When Nelson Rockefeller learned that George Romney had been the only other Governor to accept Ronald Reagan's invitation, he hastily canceled out. "I'm not a candidate," Rocky insisted. "I didn't want any misunderstanding." Reagan opened the conference, then flew on to other business before Romney arrived, fresh from his tour of ghettos in the Mid west. Finally, the noncandidates...
...L.B.J. 50% to 38%, Romney leads the President 45% to 42%, and Senator Charles Percy, now likely to be Illinois' favorite son, ties L.B.J. at 42%. However, Mervin Field's California Poll reported that the voters there preferred only one Republican to Lyndon Johnson, and that is Nelson Rockefeller. Field's figures had Rocky beating L.B.J...
With ten months to go before the Republican Convention, every professed non-candidate last week was waging his noncampaign in his own noncommittal way. George Romney found his way out of the washing machine and into the ghetto. Nelson Rockefeller hummed September Song. Ronald Reagan transferred his pragmatic ire from Berkeley to the conduct of the war. And Rich ard Nixon, purring like a tabby at the cream bowl, mourned the decline of American prestige abroad...
Wish & Fact. Many Republicans-influenced perhaps by wish as much as fact-continued to believe that Rocky dreams privately of still greater enjoyment and satisfaction in Washington. Rockefeller's family even inclined to that view. "I remind you," noted Nelson's younger brother, Arkansas' Governor Winthrop, "that women and politicians have the right to change their minds." Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew was more certain than ever that Rockefeller would run. Agnew's candidate for Vice President: California's Governor Reagan...