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Scoop Jackson was desperately trying to persuade voters that he is more than a stand-in for H.H.H. Straining to discredit his chief competitor on the ballot, he even tried to suggest that Jimmy Carter's indifferent stand on the right-to-work law when he was Georgia's Governor was somehow responsible for unemployment in Philadelphia. Big labor and most of the state's party sachems were pushing for Jackson in hopes of stalling Carter and making the Pennsylvania outcome so indecisive that the real winner would be Humphrey. Locals of the Sheet Metal Workers...
...Classics are a last-minute stand-in for the squad of local high school all-stars that was slated to enter the tournament. The schoolboys were scratched from the card after University officials told the tournament organizers that NCAA regulations do not allow colleges to sponsor such events if they involve high school players...
...into an industrial Northern state's primary and come out with a paltry third-place finish at 17 per cent of the vote. In Wisconsin, Indiana and Maryland in 1964--at the beginning of the cycle of violent ghetto summers--he won between 30 and 43 per cent against stand-in candidates for a popular incumbent President. The fightin' judge won Maryland and Michigan...
...mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian Clarke) in a scene of wonderfully evasive romanticism couched in a discussion of beetles and beetle scholars (Clarence turns...
Huston and Gladys Hill's adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling short story set in 19th century India takes some liberties with plot but holds to the original spirit. Kipling himself even shows up as a major character, wittily played by Christopher Plummer. He serves as a stand-in for the story's narrator, a slightly dazed sounding board for the wild ideas and adventures of Danny Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). These two shopworn soldiers of fortune, after time in Her Majesty's forces, set out on their grandest exploit: to become kings...