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Goldstock and other investigators think the shrewder members of the Mob may now either pass up the vacant leadership slots or else move into them only gradually to keep from being spotted by press or prosecutors. Predicts Lieut. Remo Franceschini, one of the New York police department's top Mob watchers: "We are going to see a return to the old days, when the Mafia really was a secret organization...
...political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await the next Huey Long. To take the measure of his threat, art will have to be shrewder and more sensitive than either of these movies...
...unflappable, but as at Sarajevo last winter, he seems a bit weary. A typical snatch of McKay's sometimes repetitive prose: "This could be a historic night in the history of men's gymnastics." Among his potential successors, Jim Lampley comes across as better informed and shrewder than he was at Sarajevo, but the most natural and adroit performer is Kathleen Sullivan, who appears headed for a major news anchor slot. ABC's worst efforts include Ray Gandolf's report on buying breakfast at a trendy Los Angeles beanery (he had three frankfurters) and former...
...Harvard evaded the Blue Devils' trap, and the prey proved almost as shrewd as the hunter--perhaps even shrewder, considering the dominating talent of the Duke cagers...
...solid 30 per cent of the vote just about any time, have learned their lesson. In 1961 hordes of them defected to vote for a small-time Republican political science professor named John Tower, thinking a good liberal could beat him easily the next time around. But Tower was shrewder than they had expected--he managed to build up a base of support that has sustained him in office. This election year marks the most serious challenge Tower has faced since he first went to Washington...