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...efforts to save Major Dundee from mediocrity rival the gesture of Actor Heston who, with a perhaps excessive sense of responsibility, returned his $200,000 salary to Columbia Pictures to pay for last-minute improvements in the film. Alas, the bread thus cast upon the waters seems to have sunk without a trace...
...temple. "With the blessings of the tooth and the people's encouragement, we have carried out the struggle successfully," said Senanayake, and he called upon the Sinhalese people to lay aside their differences and help "resurrect the country from the disastrous position to which it has sunk...
...that the next six months will go better for them than the last. Plagued with one embarrassing problem after another-from surrendering to France on grain prices to losing out on the multilateral force to humiliation by the Arabs over Israel's recognition-Erhard's regime has sunk in national esteem to its lowest level since der Dicke took office 17 months ago. Latest poll returns show the C.D.U. trailing the Social Democrats...
...consisted of party votes rather than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...
...great man-you're constantly asking yourself, 'Do I measure up?' " Aging Henry J. now lives under the Honolulu sun, devotes much of his energies to the company's 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai real estate development, into which the Kaiser enterprises have sunk more than $25 million with little return. Edgar invariably sounds Henry J. out on all major decisions, and for more than sentimental reasons. After all, Edgar has three sons of his own-age 16 to 22-and he expects to be listened to when they take over...