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Sales have been softest in such big-ticket items as major appliances and furniture. Less expensive, practical items like do-it-yourself auto tune-up kits and pocket calculators (which can now be bought for under $20) have been selling well. So, in general, have basic clothes -especially sweaters-although one executive at Baltimore's Hutzler Bros, notes that "the whole men's area is sick. The old man is the first one cut off the Christmas list...
...camera move, he has become increasingly skillful in cueing his audience by these means to the psychology of his characters. He has become so subtle in his effects that his two major blunders in Junior Bonner--a slow-motion destruction of a cottage by a tractor which is the softest piece of visual agrarian propaganda since The Grapes of Wrath, and a scene in an empty railroad station heightened by the handy entrance of a train--stick out like Irish bulls in a full corral. There is interplay between Ace (Robert Preston) and Mrs. Bonner which says more about responsibility...
...Svengali. Discoverer, manager and boy friend, Justin denies one further description. "A lot of people have the impression I'm Mr. Svengali," he remarks. "Actually I'm the softest person in the world." Soft or not, he is very much in charge. "Without him, where would she be?" her father once asked. "He is the prop on which she leans." Says the Twig herself: "None of it would have happened if I hadn't met Justin. He listens to everybody's opinion and then makes up his own mind. Fortunately, I listen only to Justin...
...York professional teams are turning Manhattan into something that resembles an isle of joy. First the Jets, then the Mets, and now the New York Knickerbockers. Once the softest touch in the National Basketball Association, the Knicks have turned the beginning of the 1969-70 season into a romp; they have sprinted to a 23-2 record -the best start in league history-and have surpassed the N.B.A. consecutive-win record of 17. Says Captain and Center Willis Reed: "The fans here used to come to the Garden to watch Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell do their stuff. Now they...
...incensed by the correspondent who "twice contradicted the President's statement about the exchange of correspondence with Ho Chi Minh." That was CBS's Marvin Kalb. Despite Nixon's claim that Ho was intransigent, Kalb observed that "the Ho Chi Minh letter contained some of the softest, most accommodating language found in a Communist document concerning the war in Viet Nam in recent years...