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...some outraged citizens. A cautious, scrupulous politician, he rarely speaks out on an issue until he has absorbed all the facts. He was not a perfervid critic of Nixon during Watergate, and on occasion defended the beleaguered President. For this reason, he is sometimes portrayed as a political trimmer without sufficient principle at a time when ethical purity seems to be valued above everything else...
...first time in 25 years I'm seeing the world without an alcoholic haze," Richard Burton boasted last week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly...
...alves, who has been thoroughly reshaped, is not in the least reluctant to discuss it. She has been known to close her TV program by cheerily confiding, "Well, next week I'm going to have a complete retread." Once, when she appeared on camera looking younger and trimmer than usual, she announced that casual sit-down chats with guest stars would be out of the question for the next few days. "I've had three operations on my face and one on my stomach," Dercy says, "and I'll have 20 if necessary. Wherever I droop...
Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however...
...Tauter & Trimmer. Recognizing the need for modernization, a growing number of states are convening constitutional conventions (ConCons to headline writers). Maryland's has just got under way, and 22 other states are considering or have recently finished similar undertakings. As ConCons go, the one that met in New York last summer was no better or worse than most oth ers. And after laboring nearly six months in Albany and spending $10 million on the project, the Democratic-controlled body produced a document that was generally tauter, trimmer and improved...