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...made a paper-thin storybook hero while Perkins, with no Hitchcock to guide him, mopes through his small starring role with an air of boyish menace that might easily be mistaken for sulking. Both actors seem to have been set adrift in a poetic but implausible neverland where Tom Sawyer tangles tales with Psycho...
...business friendly and folksy. He reduces economic intricacies to homilies anyone can understand. He takes the mystery out of Wall Street and makes it seem almost a neighborly kind of place. He is capable of acute, even eloquent analysis, but in his column, he compares Lyndon Johnson to Tom Sawyer's speechifying Uncle Silas, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry to Carrie Nation, the fellow who picked his pocket on the subway to the tax-and-spend Federal Government. A week and a half ago, he was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, a job where folksiness...
Nevada's Governor Grant Sawyer, 46, figured to score zero-cool with the school set. "One basic need of youth is to participate in the responsibilities of adult life," he observed in a televised message to the state legislature, proposing to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. One youth, however, was already participating by calling her father, Grant Sawyer, and telling him as soon as he left the air that his idea turned her off. Added Gail Sawyer, 15, a Carson City tenth-grader, in an interview: "If voting qualifications were lowered, most kids would just...
Harvard Captain Ben Brooks decided the issue by defeating Steve Sawyer 4-0 in the 191-pound class, off-setting Jacobsohn's 4-1 victory over Tack Chace in the following match...
Nevada: In 1962, Democratic Senator Howard W. Cannon, 52, backed Republican Paul Laxalt for Lieutenant Governor. The idea was to keep Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer from vacating the statehouse this year and going after Cannon's job. Cannon blocked Sawyer, but now he has Laxalt to contend with. More dynamic than Cannon, Laxalt, 41, suffers from inexperience-and from Goldwater. Cannon by an inch...