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...Land Baron Ralph Bellamy discovers that his wife (Claudia Cardinale) has been kidnaped, he spares no expense in hiring the Four Fastest Guns in the West to get her back. Overcoming odds of 50 to 1 is mighty exhilarating, but all in a day's work for real pros like Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan...
...proud and somewhat willful lady, Indira Gandhi smarts under the allegation that she was picked as Prime Minister largely because the Congress Party's political pros reckoned that she would be easy to control. Yet she seemed to confirm that charge two weeks ago when she backed down on three Cabinet changes after running into strong protests from party bosses. Last week, as if to assert her independence, Mrs. Gandhi went right ahead and made some Cabinet changes anyhow...
...Some pros speak longingly of a Romney-Nixon ticket, or a Romney-Percy ticket, or Romney-Hatfield, or even Romney-Reagan. At the moment none of the prospective running mates would settle for the vice-presidential nomination. The impasse reminded one old hand of the time when Calvin Coolidge asked Senator William Borah if he would join him on the G.O.P. presidential ticket. "Which end?" snapped the stately Senator...
Despite Rockefeller's disclaimers of persisting presidential ambitions, some pros are nervously watching him for signs of a relapse. Percy, yet to serve a day, has an eye on the chairmanship of the G.O.P. Senatorial Campaign Committee?the platform from which Barry Goldwater soared to prominence. Hatfield is also believed to harbor presidential ambitions. Reagan denied having any presidential plans, but did hint that he might go to the convention as a favorite son if there is "a need to avoid a divisive
...leftists did, of course, was decide to boycott the election. Even CDC members refused to work in the Brown campaign. "Now no Democrat will ever again take us for granted," Scheer contends. "They'll have to make concessions to us. We'll have more of a machine than the pros when Brown loses...