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There is youth in Italy: Troy Donahue, 25, the puppy love of umpteen-agers, who is obviously growing with experience (particularly in the paunch...
...often a bore at the microphone. "Too many businessmen cannot give a speech; they have to make an address," says Chicago Executives' Club President Clint Youle, who has heard hundreds of them. "They speak on subjects so lofty they cannot say anything that has not been said umpteen times before." Furthermore, says one Florida executive, many businessmen are barely articulate, mumble in meaningless cliches (some favorites: "broadly defined policies," "hitting the mark foursquare"), talk only to each other, and say only what they want to hear, "as if they were living in some kind of ghetto...
...just read your Aug. 18 item on the seminude show girls in Las Vegas. I don't think a Roman Catholic bishop has a right to tell night club owners to "dress" their performers. In France (nearly 90% Catholic), seminude show girls have been parading in nightclubs for umpteen years; French bishops don't insist on them covering...
...York City being the biggest Irish (umpteen millions of actual or sentimental descent) and biggest Jewish (more than 2,000,000) community in the world, few events could set the town more on its ear than the arrival of Dublin's Jewish Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe for the St. Patrick's Day parade. On Fifth Avenue, green-cravated Mayor Briscoe. having gone to synagogue that morning, graced a reviewing stand that groaned with the weight of politicians and their relatives. Among the dignitaries: the city's Mayor
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...