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...story is a distillation of Texan political mores, which permit the closest of friends to castigate one another on the hustings and get drunk together when the votes are in. Though Governor John Bowden Connally Jr. considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at the Johnson Administration of late. Connally's blasts began last month when the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to monitor a special 15-day voter registration period that followed the abolition of Texas' poll tax. Last week the state won a court fight against a U.S. attempt to extend...
...does it lack the courage to cash in on its convictions, most of which are half-truths deftly rigged to attract liberal non-thinkers. Miss Hellman seldom lets a scene end without tacking on her comment; except for a handful of courageous, long-suffering Negroes and Sheriff Brando, no Texan escapes being singed by a Statement. Brando ably plays the stereotyped champion of human rights that he seems compelled to endorse in film after film, changing only his dialect. Bloody, brutally beaten by local louts, he makes a final, desperate attack against prejudice and hatred while indifferent townsfolk stand...
...plain-talking Texan who has spent years poking around the innards of high-compression engines, Carroll Shelby, 43, can get pretty tense. Whenever he thinks about Enzo Ferrari, which is often, he also thinks about the annual 24-hour Le Mans race-and what happens to his blood pressure then is not good for a man who has a bad heart...
India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
...designer to watch was Ken Scott, 41-year-old expatriate Texan who lives in Milan. For strolls by the sea, he suggested a silk T shirt, Bermuda shorts and knee-sock ensemble in a Japanese print. His silk-jersey print dress with a short, short skirt and flowing sleeves had one American fashion writer predicting that it will become "the new status dress...