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...other characters in Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo...
...world diplomats thumb and plumb President Nixon's book-length outline of U.S. foreign policy, the most dog-eared section is likely to be that covering U.S. attitudes toward the Soviet Union. It is an unusually frank appraisal of Russia's rise as a world power and suggests ways in which both superpowers should accommodate their differences through a realistic assessment of mutual self-interest. As such, it could have an influence on Kremlin decisions now being readied for unveiling at the Soviet Party Congress that begins later this month. Some excerpts...
Director Arthur Penn has been alternately shrewd and loco with Little Big Man, but mainly he has been plumb lucky. In the book, Crabb complains about western movies that show Indians played by Caucasians "with 5 o'clock shadows and lumpy arms." Perversely, Penn sought Sir Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield for the chieftain's role. When they refused, he awarded the part to Richard Boone, who resigned shortly before filming. It was only then that Penn chose a hereditary leader of Canada's Salish tribe, Chief George, to play the old man. It was a momentous...
Cooling It. Such minuses were not allowed to mar the fact of the President's extraordinary appearance on television. To sit down with Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC and Howard K. Smith of ABC, and plumb live the intricacies of foreign policy for an hour, bespoke presidential confidence -and courage. No tape editor could erase a presidential slip that might occur on the special set at a KABC studio in Hollywood, where the temperature had been lowered on request to 59° before air time. When the red lights of the TV cameras winked...
Agency executives are understandably concerned, partly because women are by far the biggest buyers of packaged goods. To plumb the depths of discontent, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn conducted long interviews with 19 feminists, including writers, a photographer and Wall Street workers. The primary complaint was against the generally servile role of women in ads. Though nearly one-half of American women hold jobs, they are still depicted in many ads as scatterbrained homebodies, barely able to cope with piles of soiled laundry, dirty sinks and other mundane minutiae. In most of these ads, men instruct, while women do the servants...