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...Jack Nicholson and Mary Tyler Moore. He came to TIME in 1968 after serving as a speechwriter for L.B.J. and then Veep Hubert Humphrey. Says Janos, a former Houston bureau chief who has also reported on space shots and astronauts' moon walks: "Even a superspectacular like Kong is pale stuff compared with watching a rocket lift off at Cape Kennedy...
Died. Leonid, 80, Russian-born neoromantic painter; in Manhattan, where he had lived since World War II. While painting on the Mediterranean coast in the 1920s, Leonid became fascinated by the mysterious beauty of the shore, and pale, silent seascapes became his hallmark...
...rest comfortably on his record. Trying to keep pace with Kohl, 46, in an unexpectedly tight race, Schmidt crisscrossed the country in search of votes, logging 16,120 miles and delivering 80 speeches in six weeks. As the campaign wound up at week's end, Schmidt, 57, looking pale and haggard, publicly claimed confidence. Privately, though, he conceded that the race against Kohl was too close to call...
HARRY CROSBY, scion of a proper Boston family, had already been living a mad and extravagant life for some years when he sent this cable to his irate father. Evidently, it was beginning to pale; just a few moments after he sent the cable, Crosby, a professional eccentric and would-be poet, discontinued his calculatedly scandalous life in favor of a mad and extravagant death. A compulsive seeker after new sensations, Crosby had already exhausted almost everything else in the way of the exotic, the extreme and the self-consciously decadent when he was found in 1929 in a friend...
...Honest. Smith left the meeting looking pale and angry. He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way. Though it seems hard to imagine, Smith is a moderate by Rhodesian standards, and at Umtali he faced a right-wing revolt led by Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded...