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A.B.J. Despite the plethora of potential candidates, one of the five current leading contenders is almost certain to top the ticket. The reason: "We want a winner, and that means a name candidate," says former Kansas Republican Vice Chairman Mrs. Kathleen Hetcher. Goldwater had to scramble for the nomination in...
Finger Stitcher. And his audience knows him-as a straight, if sometimes confusing, pitchman whose lack of polish is somehow his shining virtue. "There's too much damn talk on TV," he says. "Other variety shows have skillful and amusing hosts, but they spend too much time getting into...
Throughout the investigations Serios has been, on the whole, remarkably anxious to convince and notably open about all procedures, suggesting that if he is a fraud, he is one of the more skillful and calculating variety, a suggestion which nothing known about his intelligence, background, manual skills or working condiitons...
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. In this skillful culling of memorable moments from Bel Kaufman's bestselling book about a teacher's struggle in a slum high school, Sandy Dennis re-creates the tyro schoolmarm with considerable grace.
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.