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...biggest problem this year. Moreover, the National Committee headquarters has been reduced in size and deprived of much of its authority by the White House; and National Chairman John Bailey has little entree to the President's office. The staff cutback was attributed to economy; the Democrats still owe $2,400,000 from the 1964 election. Arthur Krim, president of United Artists Corp., was appointed finance chairman to head a $5,000,000 fund drive to pay off the old lOUs and bankroll this year's activities...
...Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign autographs because "I owe the public the same thing it owes me-nothing." As a coach, Russell admits, he will have to improve his public relations. "But I won't conform to anybody's code of behavior," he insists. "My name is still William Felton Russell. I'm not going...
Most films from Sweden are either saturated with sex or infatuated with Ingmar Bergman, or both. In two mettlesome new movies, a pair of little-known Swedish directors make no effort whatever to change the subject, which is still man-woman-mattress, but they owe little more to Bergman than full-bodied performances by several of his favorite actors. Both films display a strong personal style, evidence that Sweden's movie industry may be thriving on an infusion of warm blood...
...Mayor's proposals, bluntly stated his opinion of the report yesterday: "It's just another power grab by Collins." "The fact that the proposal allows commission members to serve on other agencies at the same time probably means that Collins will appoint (BBA administrator Edward) Logue or officials who owe him allegiance for other jobs to it," he said...
...price tags, one-stop shopping, money-back guarantees, credit buying, parking space and prompt deliveries, customers have turned Sears's air-conditioned Latin American bazaars into human hormigueros, or anthills. What shoppers primarily come for, however, are the goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion to manual work prevent any do-it-yourself...