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...frightened, disgusted and disillusioned with our Republican Party. Our leaders, with the exception of Rockefeller, seem to have become spineless onlookers. Our so-called pros are selling us out; they are giving our country a one-party system...
Next day, Barry Goldwater, a guest of the host committee, arrived at the conference. Anti-Goldwaterites among the Republican Governors had invited him to sit down with them and explain his "principles." Barry scornfully refused, sent each of the Governors an old pamphlet stating his views. To the pros and to the public, Goldwater seemed like the leader who had faced and won his last challenge and could now coast to victory...
...course, soap. In Venezuela police found themselves confiscating the same launch three times-the smugglers simply kept buying it back at auction. In Argentina one crafty operator kept police baffled by using two planes with the same markings and registration-one for smuggling and one for legitimate freight. Other pros ship Scotch in gasoline tankers, diamonds in chunky chocolate bars, cigarettes under false truck floor boards...
...modest set and three actors, it can break even merely by taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet, but its audience-which began with a pittance advance sale of $165-is promisingly growing. Broadway pros would have folded it, but Gilroy and his novice producer, Edgar Lansbury, are determined to take the gamble that the play will more than recover its present losses. "All these Broadway experts would like to write us off as an artistic success only," Gilroy says. "I want to be able...
Literary Caddies. Palmer commands the added income with the effortless grace that goes into a good tee shot. An editor of Golf Digest-one of the many magazines that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...