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...chat about the prospects of Republican unity and success. To Rockefeller, the 25 G.O.P. Governors "provide a very unique starting point" for a comeback. But Rocky thought-and said repeatedly-that they should achieve a "consensus" on objectives and attitudes before they begin worrying about a candidate. After the umpteenth reference to "consensus"-which, after all, has become virtually a Lyndon Johnson copyright-he admitted: "I hate to keep using that word, but I can't think of a better...
After Harvard's tally mid-way through the final period, Princeton held again. With fourth and seven on the Tiger 36, Lalich dropped back to pass and three Princeton linemen snowed him under for the umpteenth time that afternoon. And the Tigers took over with 1:45 to play. Ivy Standings League Overall Harvard 4-1 6-1 Cornell 4-1 6-1 Dartmouth 4-1 5-2 Princeton 4-1 5-2 Yale 3-2 4-3 Penn 1-4 2-5 Brown 0-5 1-6 Columbia...
...stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth Hollywood bubble bath. Sensibly, she leaps out of the suds and heads straight for the north country to find peace...
...opinions-a sure sign of how intensely the Justices had wrestled with their constitutional duty to guard freedom of speech and press even as they sought a way to suppress the smut before them. In hot dissent, Justices Hugo Black and " William O. Douglas urged the court for the umpteenth time to quit all censorship on the ground that the First Amendment protects all expression, including obscenity, that does not actually incite antisocial conduct. "Sex is a fact of life," declared the 80-year-old Black. "I find it difficult to see how talk about sex can be placed under...
Tony Amsterdam is 30. Toiling 20 hours a day, he spends 40% of his time teaching criminal law at Penn, most of the rest traveling around the country trying civil rights cases for which he gets no fee. Last month he hit New Orleans to argue his umpteenth case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He next surfaced in Washington, advising the White House Conference on Civil Rights...