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...four-color, back-page layout. Pepsi got the first ad page for $20,000. Others-Ford, Xerox, Union Pacific, etc. -went for $15,000 a page, three times as much as the G.O.P. charged. The ads will put close to $1,500,000 into the Democratic till, and the party hopes to boost its gross well beyond $2,000,000 by selling hard-cover copies for $10, soft-cover versions for $5. The Republicans, by comparison, took in only $300,000 in advertising, charged $5 for their programs...
...release of that steamy old Lustspiel about several hairy males marooned in an outpost with Jean Harlow. No, this time it's different. This time several hairy males are marooned in an outpost with Carroll Baker. But never mind. Carroll doesn't turn up till the show's almost half over, and till she does it's pretty interesting...
...sing back. Sometimes the same figure sings from three screens at once. Sometimes each screen is a different color. Sometimes all are black and white. Sometimes the negatives are reversed. Sometimes the images on the screen and the scenes onstage are split and scattered in a maze of mirrors till illusion and reality dissolve in shimmering similitude...
Last week Lyndon decided that it was time for action. He ordered the convention planners to hold off the J.F.K. memorial program till late in the convention week. He called in Bobby Kennedy, told him that he was no longer a vice-presidential possibility, and hinted that it would be best if Bobby publicly disavowed any ambitions for the office. Bobby refused. After all, he explained rather obliquely, he had not announced his candidacy, so why should he withdraw...
...joined the Council of Economic Advisers, moved to Budget in 1962. He is attuned to Johnson's penchant for quick answers to questions, keeps on his desk a sheet of paper with the latest federal employment figures. From the time he arrives at work in his battered Renault till he leaves for home in suburban Maryland, Gordon is a prodigious worker; the 80-hour, seven-day week he put in last week is not unusual. Gordon likes to joke that Johnson has stopped calling him at midnight or at 6 in the morning, now "confines his calls to office...