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...learned much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
...Military Rapport. But the Pentagon remained on relatively good terms with Chile's military brass. Last year, for instance, the U.S. extended $10 million to the Chilean air force to buy transport planes and other equipment. The military rapport was so solid, in fact, that stories were circulating in Washington last week that U.S. officials had known about the coup up to 16 hours before it took place...
...Subject Was Roses. Frank D. Gilroy wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a young man returning from the war to a not so joyous homecoming. Jack Albertson won a Tony award for his role as the father who shares a new rapport with his returned son, played by Martin Sheen. Patricia Neal is the wife and mother who realizes the tragic and painful truths brought to the surface by her son's arrival. An excellent drama with its highly honored cast intact. Channel...
...subjects they were supposed to talk about and then they soared across the United States on smiles. But all of this could not dispel the doubts of Watergate, and in subtle ways even emphasized those doubts. Brezhnev had been briefed on Watergate. His heightened exuberance, his emphasis on personal rapport, were signals that he was trying to give his beleaguered host a bit of a boost in a tough time and, of course, protect the Brezhnev investment in Richard Nixon...
Resistant Labyrinth. Though most are content, not all the Marlborough artists have stayed with Lloyd. Italian Sculptor Gio Pomodoro broke away "because, in five years, Mr. Lloyd had set foot in my studio twice. I don't like that kind of rapport, abstract and unconnected with any of my problems...