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...Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
...rousing circulation battle with the Light, a Hearst-owned afternoon daily. Wary Light officials have already begun huffing about "foreign ownership" in their city, despite Murdoch's pledge to "keep those newspapers steadfastly American." Whatever the outcome, Murdoch's San Antonio properties will give him a toehold in the U.S. that he plans to enlarge soon in a major way with the founding of a national weekly tabloid paper. Slated for introduction in the Northeast in February, Murdoch's National Star will, he promises, "fall somewhere between TIME and the National Enquirer in content and approach...
Millhouse: a White Comedy. A brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays -- like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame...
...diseases are more feared than cholera, which in past centuries has decimated whole populations. Cholera is endemic to many Asian nations, where sanitation is poor and water supplies are contaminated. But the disease also maintains a tenuous toehold in the West. Last week it was frightening Italy, where the death toll had risen to at least 21, and threatening other European countries as well...
Millhouse: A White Comedy. A brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays--like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame...