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...exterminator worried about state regulation of his trade. A banker wanted more state deposits. A trucker complained about the weights and measures system at highway truck stations. One by one, the Arkansans recited their problems to their Governor, who met them privately, took notes, offered explanations. Incessantly mopping his broad face in the summer heat, Winthrop Rockefeller for four weeks has been roaming his adopted state, from the northeast, where the Ozark foothills blend into the Mississippi River flatlands, to the southwest plains, where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp...
Wouk described his hero as a cigar-smoking Kentucky coal trucker, huge, thick-featured and rustic, "a hulking sloven of twenty-six who had written an ugly bellowing dinosaur of a novel." In the slender person of James Franciscus, schoolteacher star of TV's Mr. Novak, Youngblood's red corpuscle count seems low. Down home, Mama Mildred Dunnock no sooner scolds him about "wastin' yur time scribblin' stories" than the phone rings. Long distance. A famous publisher is plumb crazy about his book. He heads for Manhattan, meets a fetching editor (Suzanne Pleshette) whose first...
Interviews with people of all political persuasions, at all economic and educational levels, in all parts of the U.S., find this sentiment constantly repeated. "Goldwater and his nuclear stand," says Denver Auto Salesman Arnold Grand, "scare me to death." Says Nashville Trucker John A. Wilson...
Died. William Cardinal Godfrey, 73, Archbishop of Westminster and leader since 1958 of the 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales, a Liverpool trucker's son known for his vigorously sharp attacks on what he considered Britain's declining morality and a bitter foe of those "disciples of despair'' who advocate artificial birth control; of a heart attack; in London...
...behind the idea are Hal La Pine, a used-truck dealer, and Trucker Pat O'Neill, for the past seven months owners of La Pine's restaurant, on Chagrin Boulevard, where on Monday nights they offer musicales featuring string trios or quartets, solo pianists or violinists, most of them drawn from the ranks of the Cleveland Symphony. Promptly at 9:15 p.m. last week, the members of the Concert Guild String Quartet appeared at the restaurant in white tie and tails and launched into an hour-long program of Schubert's Quartet in A Minor and Mozart...