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...beauty contest that he was defeated as House minority leader, despite the obvious differences between Indiana's jowly Halleck, 64, and Michigan's rugged Gerald Rudolph Ford, 51, a onetime college all-star football player. It was a fight between Halleck's long-entrenched, static Republican style and a new, activist, articulate trend in the G.O.P. symbolized by Jerry Ford...
...committed by law to back its money with a 25% gold "cover." In the past year, the cover has dropped from 29.7% to 27.7%, largely because the Federal Reserve issued so much new money to service the expanding economy while the nation's gold supply has remained static. This year the outflow of U.S. gold to foreign countries is expected to reach its highest level since 1960, and the gold cover will slip perilously close to the 25% floor...
...sole action of the play is a state senatorial inquiry into a case of child buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that...
Traitors & Scalawags. In their prolonged post-mortem on the 1964 election, most Republicans could agree to the fact that it had been an awful show. Beyond that, there was static from all parts of the party. Cried Actor Ronald Reagan, co-chairman of California's Citizens for Goldwater and an early-form pick among right-wingers for the state's 1966 gubernatorial nomination: "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended." Between rounds of golf, Goldwater himself took time out to lambast such middle-roading Republicans...
...Some Static. It almost seemed as though the world had waited for the U.S. election results to resume its normal hell raising. In South Viet Nam, the new civilian government began to break apart less than 24 hours after it was formed. De Gaulle's France warned that a U.S.-sponsored multilateral nuclear force including West Germany would be considered as an affront to France and demanded a reorganization of NATO itself. In Berlin, the Russians set off a small dispute about commercial airlines' use of air corridors over East Germany. And in Moscow, the new Soviet regime...