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...pushmi-pullyu...
...told they will have to pay $2,500 for a week's display of Dr. Dolittle record albums in the windows of a Manhattan store. And how to get Rex Harrison to go to South America to plug the movie? Well, suggests one publicist, since the lobby-display pushmi-pulyus were made in Peru, "I think I can get him decorated by the Peruvian government for promoting cottage industry . . . The Condor of the Andes or something like that." Producer Arthur Jacobs asks: "Condor of the Andes first class or second class? You know Rex, he loves decorations...
...extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi-pullyu will be re-created by two llamas, artfully superimposed on film back to back. Under the circumstances, what could be more natural than for Jacobs to cast Castle Combe as the good doctor's 19th century home town, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh...
...Pushmi-Pullyu 85th was a political creature in a political jungle. Its Democratic majority, realizing it had little to worry about from a Republican President prohibited by the Constitution from running again, used this year's session to prepare for Election Year 1958-and beyond that, 1960. The Eisenhower and Old Guard branches of the Republican Party were already fighting over the 1960 successorship. Even the individual leaders of the Senate-Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and California Republican William Knowland-were moving ahead with their own personal plans for the White House in '60. Against such strong political...
...such changes, which may be woven into the basic fabric of U.S. political life, the 85th Congress, First Session, may be remembered longer than for its Pushmi-Pullyu legislative record...