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...eccentric political personalities, the current Senate contest between Democratic Senator John F. Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa is certainly not an anomaly. Hayakawa, a conservative folk-hero from the days of campus unrest, has launched his political casreer at the ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls in comparison with his opponent's. Hayakawa has captured the electorate...
...experience in elective office; old Republican with none. In the race between the Democratic transplanted Easterner and the Japanese-American-immigrant Republican, charges of racism are hurled-at the immigrant. Young Democrat is generally somber-suited, dark-tied, prim and proper. His opponent's jaunty tarn o'shanter has become a symbol for the unconventionality he savors in both dress and speech. It could happen only in California, and whether the voters will opt for slight quirkiness or substantial blandness in the final scene may not be known until late at night...
...late '60s. A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College. The school had been sundered by violent demonstrations. Short, normally mild of mien and sporting a tam-o'-shanter, Hayakawa became an instant celebrity when he summoned riot police to the campus and suppressed the radical uprising. At one point the scholar personally ripped the wires from the protesters' public address system in mid-diatribe. Today he says: "I had to become an effective college president in five minutes...
...yacht Apollo, the roving residence of Scientology's founder, L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 65. Rarely photographed or seen by outsiders, Hubbard turned up briefly in Clearwater last month, portly, in apparent good health and decked out in a khaki jumpsuit and matching tam-o'-shanter. Flamboyant and authoritative, Hubbard barked out orders to a crew of young people, opened a five-figure checking account and paid a tailor $2,800 for some new clothes...
...difficult, is when you work to make other people happy." And her eyes light up. She loves to make people happy. And what's wrong with that?, the film seems to ask. There are plenty of shots of Xaviera bicycling along the city streets in the little tam-o'-shanter, plaid skirts, knee socks, of Xaviera leading her girls in a morning jog through Central Park; of Xaviera making everyone happy by giving her girls elegant clothes and indulging her men in their secret fantasies. This portrait goes beyond the whore with the heart of gold. It even outdoes...