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Congressman James Roosevelt, 57, last week decided to take on a tartar. He announced his candidacy against Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty in next April's municipal primary.* Said Roosevelt in a gibe at Yorty's notable irascibility: "Los Angeles must not be subjected to government by tantrum...
...savvy of his own. Lewis cut back the Convair division, shifted some of its projects and executives to other divisions in the company and fired more than a few. With his aides, he analyzed each one of the company's 100 major programs, from missiles (Mauler, Redeye, Terrier, Tartar) and planes (B-58, CL-44) to nuclear reactors and metal forming devices. He speedily closed down production of Convair's money-draining civilian jetliners, but put stronger emphasis...
...interesting to learn from your cover story about the Soviet President [Feb. 21] that Leonid Brezhnev is a Ukrainian like Khrushchev. This may predispose them to feel more "European" than was the case with the preceding Red rulers, since Lenin was a Tartar, Trotsky was Jewish, and Stalin came from the Caucasus...
...Spaniards and Chinese extras, and to blow the whole thing up at the end. Pictorially, the film is magnificent, and some of the handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through...
...joints and she becomes more limp than a rag doll. Nureyev is inspired by her virtuosity. In scene after scene, they act out the passionate affair of Marguerite and Armand. Denied an opportunity to show off his airborne virtuosity, only in the betrayal scene does Nureyev show the hot Tartar blood of which he boasts. Fonteyn dies fetchingly in her nightie...