Word: ralph
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Strengthened politically by what his detractors refer to as "the Bullet"-the shot that wounded Connally as he accompanied President Kennedy on the fatal motorcade in Dallas-the Gover nor has systematically squeezed liberals out of what few party posts they enjoyed. To U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the liberals' Washington oracle, Connally is "the worst, most vindictive, most reactionary Governor in Texas history...
...American League champion Baltimore Orioles disproved another notion: that pay is related to performance. Bauer, who gave Baltimore its first pennant in 69 years, signed a new two-year contract for an estimated $50,000 a year-$25,000 less than the last-place Yanks pay their manager, Ralph Houk...
Father Boyd gets mixed reviews. Variety called him "hipper-than-thou." San Francisco's Columnist Ralph Gleason dismissed his act as "boring" and advised him that "the nightclubs are in far less need of preachers than the cathedrals." He sometimes has to deal with heckling spectators who have had a bit too much to drink, but in general the audience, which often includes priests and ministers, seems to like his act. The Rev. James Clark Brown, pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church, calls Father Boyd's appearance at the hungry i "the most effective...
Despite all this, the economy is not so deeply involved in Viet Nam that industry is afraid of peace. Says President Ralph W. Rawson of Firth-Sterling Inc., a Pittsburgh manufacturer of steel for machine tools: "If the war were concluded tomorrow, I think we'd experience a 10% drop in business, but the backlog would be back where it now is within one year." Adds Charles Ducommun, president of Ducommun Inc., a Los Angeles metal supply firm: "A peace market would be a bull market, and most businessmen would happily adjust to it." Manufacturers commonly believe that they...
...only two good actors in the film (aside from Sellers) are John Mills and Ralph Richardson as the brothers but they are given little enough to do. Most of the action is centered around miscast, awkward, misty-eyed Michael Caine whose guardian is one of the brothers (you may have liked him in The Ipcress File but wait till you see him now) and his courtship with an orphan whose guardian is the other surviving brother. In an eminently forgettable role, she is a caricature of supposed Victorian modesty (her cousin's hobby of collecting eggs is deemed "obscene...