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...column"Our investigation turned up a number of disturbing facets of Burger's character, some previously reported and some not-but all ofwhich we confirmed. Put together, they reveal a complex, often contradictory individual: rigidly conservative, obsessively secretive, pompous, condescending, manipulative and possessed of a hair-trigger temper...
...show must be a hit in order for him to leave a proper inheritance to the daughter he has never seen as a grownup. She, of course, turns out to be the chorus girl who saves the show by secretly advancing him money and then going on when the temper amental star (Van Devere) incapacitates herself. The juvenile she falls in love with -he is an accountant who composes a hit score overnight-is played by Barry Bostwick, who is also a gangster in Dynamite Hands, which wins for him the versatility award for this picture and serious consideration...
...important result of the new political disorder has been the reversal of the historic relationship between the Senate and the House of Representatives. By giving Senators six-year terms, the founding fathers hoped for a senior body of thoughtful, experienced and judicious men who would temper the boisterous House, where membership is subject to total change every two years. Now the opposite is true. The House has become a safe haven for incumbents; 95% of those who sought re-election won this year...
...around the slogan, THERE'S A WHOLE NEW GENERATION IN CLEVELAND, AND WE'RE BUILDING A WHOLE NEW TOWN. But the current wave of bad news has caused one of the campaign's chief fund raisers, Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, to temper his boosterism. "Let's face it," say: Modell, "you can't talk about the great cultural assets of Cleveland when the city looks like it's going bankrupt...
...only the latest clashes in a nearly lifelong battle between Huey Newton and the Oakland police. Even as a teenager, the seventh child of a Baptist minister from Louisiana, Newton acquired a record of arrests for fighting with white policemen. Newton does not deny that he has a hot temper and has often said, "I'm against violence; I'm for self-defense...