Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again with three short hits. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton are either hilarious or sentimental as they portray middle-aged couples in sometimes awkward, always amusing predicaments...
What passes for country music these days is so diffuse that it just about defies definition. These albums have little in common except that they were made by men with short haircuts, a sob in their throats, a taste for old-style ballads, and a refreshing lack of city-style sophistication...
Post-Pepsi. For the short run, Kennedy's decision had the heaviest impact on Humphrey. Teddy on the ticket would conciliate many R.F.K. and McCarthy dissidents. More than ever, Humphrey's campaign badly needs a transfusion of that younger blood. McCarthy last week japed that Humphrey "may have been under house arrest for the past four years," and the Veep is indeed having more and more trouble shedding the stigma of the Johnson Administration's policies while simultaneously preserving the image of a faithful Vice President...
Prices in Biafra have skyrocketed. A chicken that cost 70? before the war now brings $5.50. The government and the missionaries are advising the people to eat rats, dogs, lizards, even white ants to get some protein into their systems. Gasoline is rationed and electricity is in short supply...
...cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look-alike first cousin. It's just a flash of his pan, and J.B. got a kick out of it all. But then, considering the relatively short-term market for his kind of role, he headed back to his job as security guard for the Dallas Cowboys football team...