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...Cruel Hoax." Still and all, Bill Miller entered 1964 as a politician without a visible political future. In 1962, he won re-election to Congress by a scant 5,702 votes out of 139,710 cast, and the prospects for this year were worse. Among other things, he could expect little help from Governor Rockefeller's state organization, since he and Rocky had been at odds off and on for a long time. He therefore announced that he would retire from Congress and return to his law practice in Buffalo...
...criticism for failing to do so that he went personally to the southeast, summoned provincial governors, army commanders and police officers to a meeting to chart plans for trapping Kocero. At the moment the meeting was being held, the bandit was nonchalantly holding up eleven autos and buses a scant eight miles away. The laughingstock of Turkey, Kurutluoglu resigned soon afterward...
Just in case there was any remaining doubt about Goldwater's nomination, it was dispelled a scant five hours after his arrival when word came that Ohio's Governor James Rhodes had given up his favorite-son candidacy, thereby freeing about two-thirds of his state's 58-member delegation to vote for Goldwater on the first ballot...
...Scant Martini. With more than 300 companies, 66 nations, Mormons, Methodists, Catholics and assorted amusement-park types all reaching for him, a fairgoer is lost without a plan, since it is possible to spend a whole day in a series of places that might better be avoided for a whole lifetime. A casual browser is better off in Death Valley than in Flushing Meadow, and the fair's avenues and promenades are already lined with the whitening bones of people who did not read up on the fair and map out their itineraries in advance...
...semidocumentary on the indelicate issue of racial intermarriage, it was directed by ex-TV Actor Larry Peerce, 34, son of Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jan Peerce, and produced by a friend and colleague, Sam Weston, 36. The film was shot in Painesville, Ohio, and has no big stars. When the scant $250,000 budget started to run dry, Producer Weston doubled as actor...