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...states with the candidate since January. He observes: "The same fellow who can be very cool and distant in Washington takes on almost a new persona on the campaign trail. He can get very excited." A veteran of the Ford-Dole campaign in 1976, Ogden says that his stint with Carter has been "a great deal more intense. When he does campaign, Carter throws everything into...
...extraordinary journey, surmounting all barriers of space and time. The pilot-guide does not pause to question such miracles. Nor does he stint on bold speculation. Passing one planet, he muses, "Intelligent beings may have evolved and reworked this planetary surface in some massive engineering enterprise." Finally returning to the vicinity of home, he talks of "a single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small...
...most notably as founder and co-chairman of the National Urban Coalition, fellow of the Harvard Corporation and vice chairman of the New York Public Library. Heiskell began his career here as a journalist. In 1937 he was named LIFE'S first medicine and science editor, after a stint on the old New York Herald Tribune. He also attended the Harvard Business School, but left after a year, deciding he "never wanted to have anything to do with business again." Despite that pledge, he was lured to the publisher's office of LIFE in 1939 as assistant general...
...Buchwald hasn't always concerned himself with making people laugh. He was a student once. After a brief stint in the marines, young Art decided he should go to college. But because he hadn't graduated from high school, he wanted to find out from a university what kind of high school courses he should take to prepare himself for the heady world of higher academics...
After a start seven years ago on Laugh-In, a regular stint on The Sonny and Cher Show, both as comic-actor Murray Langston, and 130 bagged appearances on The Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag-headed comedian has been offered the lead role, without the bag, in a television pilot called Scared Stiff, about a bumbling private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with...