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...tall silver-haired man striding down the Washington corridor could have been the sleek candidate for the U.S. presidency that he once seemed destined to become. "Hiya, John B.," said a passer-by with a warm slap on the shoulder. Despite such joviality, John B. Connally, 58, was heading toward U.S. District Judge George L. Hart's courtroom to face trial. The charges: accepting a $10,000 gratuity for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk-price supports in 1971. Three times Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, Connally looked tense last week at what...
Vocal Amphibian. Nilsson admits to 56 years now. She had not sung Sieglinde, the mortal woman caught in the murderous shenanigans of the gods, since 1957, simply because even the most slow-witted impresario knows that casting her as Sieglinde is like taking a great passer and putting him on defense. Nilsson is the supernatural warrior Brunnhilde...
Offense QUARTERBACKS: Steve Bartkowski, University of California, 6 ft. 4 in., 215 Ibs. A strong drop-back passer with a high release and quick wrist who broke Craig Morton's single-season passing record at Cal by throwing...
Gary Johnson, Grambling, 6 ft. 3 in., 260 lbs. Big and raw, Johnson really knows how to turn the heat on a passer and can stop any runner in his tracks with a huge bear...
...Disorder is the work of Ivan Passer, whose Intimate Lighting was one of the highlights of that brief burst of films from Czechoslovakia that also included Loves of a Blonde and Closely Watched Trains. This is his second American feature and it betrays an addled, even desperate sensibility. Passer's talents have received scant nourishment on American soil...