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...vote was supposed to be a curtain raiser for the main event, a leading indicator of the Prime Minister's electoral intentions. At stake were 12,668 seats in 369 local councils. Inevitably, perhaps, it was also anticlimactic. Labor did a shade better than expected, given its poor standing in the opinion polls, but the Tories also fared reasonably well. The fledgling Social Democrats did poorly, though it was their first try at nationwide campaigning. "Very patchy," said Ivor Crewe, a political analyst at Essex University...
...made his long-shot race official three weeks ago. Of the top four contenders, only Senator John Glenn, 61, has not formally announced his candidacy. He will not do so until mid-April. He did, however, fly to Iowa and New Hampshire last week, and held a major fund raiser in his home state of Ohio...
...long as a year: E. Howard Hunt, former Attorney General John Mitchell and Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Prison terms for Perjurer Dwight Chapin (eight months), Burglary Plotters Jeb Magruder (seven months) and Egil Krogh (four months), Cover-Up Conspirator Charles Colson (seven months), Illegal Fund-Raiser Herbert Kalmbach (six months), John Dean (less than five months) and Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti (four months) seemed light to some, just to others...
...phone rang. It was the wardrobe man from the TV series Quincy, which is filming a two-part episode at the institution, with Campbell in the role of a possibly murderous administrator of a convalescent home. As the fund raiser spoke, another TV series, Remington Steele, began filming a scene on the premises, and a handful of the 300 people being cared for here would pick up $174 for being extras, for doing what they would do normally. It is a frequent affair, and the deal seems foursquare, with the residents keeping a hand in the business and the business...
Ready? A California state assemblyman (Dudley Moore) is running for Congress. On his way to a fund raiser, he becomes lost and is given directions by a waif on the road, one of those annoyingly precocious children beloved by bad scriptwriters. He invites the girl (Katherine Healy) to the party, and it turns out that she is not a waif at all but the daughter of America's cosmetics queen (Mary Tyler Moore). The mother makes him an offer. If he gives her twelve-year-old, who has developed a crush on him, a meaningful role in his campaign...