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Hither & Ives. Now and then a new Hollywood girl shows bomblike possibilities, notably Yvette Mimieux. But an explosion is unlikely to occur. A new sex goddess would have to get multiple goddess roles. Fewer movies are being made, and when the plump parts come, the lean girls seem to get them: the best sex role in recent years is Irma La Douce, yet it is played by Shirley MacLaine, whose deep decolletage cannot conceal the clean-cut kookie girl beneath...
...liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will plump for Kennedy...
...looks like a casting director's choice for the job-plump, bald, ruddy, even a little belligerent. At 70, age has not withered his stern skills nor staled his colorful style. But now, after 23 years on the bench, New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Simon Leibowitz finds himself before the bar as a defendant, his very qualifications to serve the law subject to review by a panel of his peers...
...long. Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 69, and former Tory Party Leader lain Macleod, 50, have found new grubstakes on Grub Street, as Britons call the publishing world. Macleod, a onetime bridge columnist, will become editor of the prestigious Tory-lining weekly, Spectator (circ. 48,000), where he can plump for his alternative-to-Home party line. Macmillan will become board chairman of Manhattan's St Martin's Press, a wholly-owned subsidiary of his family's London publishing firm. He succeeds his son, Maurice, 42, who is leaving to join the Tory government...
...electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...