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...second year of $3,800,000, of which roughly a third is earmarked for membership expansion. Aided by word-of-mouth recruitment, which already accounts for 25% of the organization's new members, the rolls could swell to more than 300,000 by next year. They could also shrink, and in that sense Common Cause faces a continued test. Says Gardner: "Our record is fairly well known now. A year ago, a membership prospect got a blueprint. Now he gets a track record...
Like many rock concerts, Harry Kellerman has about 15 minutes of entertainment and hours to kill. Accordingly, Director Ulu Grosbard shot endless footage of the sidewalks of New York City, a view of the city from the air, and Georgie and his shrink schussing downhill in the snow. The pictorial trickery cannot disguise the vapidity of the film...
...Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...
...WILL HAVE TO SHRINK ITS BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIT. The U.S. really brought on this month's crisis by pumping out a flood of dollars around the world. The oversupply fanned doubts about the dollar's value and started a stampede into other currencies. Europeans no longer trust Washington's promises to get its balance of payments in order. French Economist Jacques Rueff noted sarcastically last week that a succession of U.S. Treasury Secretaries have pledged to wind down the deficit within two years. Impatient with words, European nations now appear to be trying to force action...
...tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably as Moriarity...