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...call it the United States. And we're bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
Newest in the successful line-up are Mr. Laffs, which goes in for major-league baseball players, and Maxwell's Plum, decorated in "spontaneous American" by Owner Warner LeRoy, 31, son of the Hollywood producer, who sees his pub as "a revolution between the old-style pickup bar and a new café. We act as catalysts to the very gregarious, but on a high level." So high, LeRoy claims, that "Timothy Leary used to come in every evening, and one night we refused Bobby Kennedy because there was no room...
...bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game-winning touchdown pass: "You pull off something like that, and there doesn't need to be anything else, ever." The armchair quarterback will readily agree -and be intensely jealous of Plimpton every page...
...scientific centers. After all, the new atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense, the AEC's plum has fallen near the tree...
...NUTCRACKER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet is brought to life by an international cast that includes New York City Ballet Stars Edward Villella (as the Prince), Melissa Hayden (the Sugar Plum Fairy) and Patricia McBride (Klara). Also featured will be members of the Stuttgart Opera, Copen hagen's Royal Opera, and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Franz Allers...