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...home. Generally, he will probably vote as a conservative on fiscal matters, a cautious liberal on civil rights, and as a selective Senator on such matters as foreign aid. Murphy may not become an instant Senate sage, however. At times he is given to sweepingly naive comments that scarcely smack of legislative statesmanship. Looking forward last week to his new job, Murphy announced: "I'm going to work to see that foreign policy is taken away from the State Department and given back to the people." Nonetheless, Senator Murphy's move from Hollywood to Capitol Hill came only...
Through the years, Boston's Irish had learned to live with Georgia's crackers, but now they were both being elbowed aside by Midwestern half-conservatives and Scrantonish representatives of the Establishment. Smack in the middle of this greatest of party extravagansas there were knots of newly converted Republicans, weeping involuntarily for Keating and Percy...
Rowdy Links. Supporters of exiled Dictator Juan Perón put De Gaulle precisely where he did not wish to be-smack in the middle of Argentina's violent internal politics. From Madrid, Perón told his supporters to "greet De Gaulle as you would greet me." That produced a mob scene and a rowdy attempt to link De Gaulle with Perón, presenting both as champions of the third force, independent of either East or West. The obvious purpose was to discomfit the regime of President Arturo Illia, which has cast its lot with...
...Sighing, Stolle sank into a chair at courtside while Hopman hovered over him, whispering furiously in his ear. What he said has been lost to history. But Stolle nodded, stalked onto the court, and broke Ralston's serve right back-with a perfectly placed lob that landed smack on the base line for the winning point. After that, Ralston seemed to collapse; Stolle quickly ran out the set for a 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 9-11, 6-4 victory. Next day, as expected, Roy Emerson polished off Chuck McKinley...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...