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...scoops come infrequently, and more often the newsmen are morbidly conventional, afraid that their leads will be different from the AP's stolid interpretation and so invoke their editors's reproaches. They surround wire reporter Walter Mears at his typewriter, then bandy about the chosen angle of the story, afraid to take chance...
...savvy comes from the city rat's instinct for survival. He knows that the witty things he says are idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait, a kind of defiance. Allen is fighting back in this picture, and it works--the audience follows right along...
...believing that a President should set some time aside for sex." On this titillating note, Gossipmonger Earl Wilson proceeds in his forthcoming book Show Business Laid Bare to reveal a "dalliance" between President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. With details drawn mostly from the deathbed apocrypha that surround the star's suicide in 1962, Wilson constructs a labyrinthine scenario that shuttles Kennedy and Monroe round the country, juggling dark glasses, wigs and stand-ins to cover their trysts. Even Monroe's last words were about Kennedy, claims Wilson. Kennedy's brother-in-law Peter Lawford...
...this century. Rockefeller, whose Commission on Critical Choices for America is the latest step in his endless quest for the presidency, broke off negotiations two years ago between the state and the prisoners who had revolted to protest conditions at Attica State Prison. His command to state troopers to surround and retake the fortress led to the unnecessary deaths of 37 prisoners and guards...
Nixon's most tortuous-and mysterious-business dealings surround his estate at San Clemente, Calif. In 1969, in two separate transactions, Nixon acquired his Western White House and 28.9 acres around it for $1.5 million, largely with the help of loans from his millionaire friend Robert Abplanalp. In December 1970, he sold all but 5.9 acres of this property for $1,249,000. The buyer's legal name was the B and C Investment Co., but in reality the buyers were the President's staunch friends Abplanalp and Rebozo. Nixon had, in effect, sold his friends...