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RONALD v. DELLUMS. They ate watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker...
...months. One bar owner there sums up the economics of the trend: "I had a regular beer bar here, and I was lucky if I took in $80 a night. Now I get a couple onstage, pay them $10, charge a $3 cover and $1.25 for a glass of tap beer that costs me a nickel. Even on a bad night I come out with...
...staggers to the brink. The Goodbody bail-out was the sort of thing that can be done only once; not even Merrill Lynch has the resources to rescue a succession of failing houses. If Congress passes the bill to set up a Securities Investor Protection Corp., with authority to tap the Treasury for as much as $1 billion to restore stock to customers of failing brokers, all may be well for investors, though not necessarily for their brokers. The Goodbody furore has improved the bill's chances, but it still could be put aside in an adjournment rush...
Ruby Keeler, now in her sixties, stars in the show, and the wave of applause that greets her every tap dance, her every entrance, even her bad lines, points toward that self-congratulation. If Ruby can still tap her way into the hearts of the fans-it should be recalled that Miss Keeler was the ingenue to whom Warner Baxter said in 42nd Street, "You're going out there a youngster, but you're coming back a star!"-then perhaps there's still reason to believe that there is life after thirty...
...there seems to be revolution hatching in Wills' prose. It is odd, then, after 600 pages, to find him in a mood of mild conciliation. "There are signs that history, having made ours a great nation, may now be in the process of unmaking us-unless we can tap some energies for our own renewal." Having damned the Horatio Alger society from the pulpit, Wills ends by taking up a collection for self-improvement...