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...Smile. Muskie's talk was taped in the family's yellow-shingled house on Kennebunk Beach, and broadcast the following day on CBS during the final ten minutes of a shortened Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. His performance was solid but unspectacular, flintily eloquent and unemotional; not once did he smile. If elected he promised "a new beginning," a phrase provided by his chief speechwriter, Robert Shrum, a former Lindsay aide. In inflection, tone, even phraseology, he evoked the refrain of John Kennedy's 1960 standard campaign speech: "We are going to have to do much better." Nine...
...Communism and his distaste for the Chilean experience. Thus the Front's hopes for a truly stupendous first showing were disappointed. In Montevideo, where the Front had fully expected to win big, its candidate ran a poor second to the Colorados. Nationwide the Front polled a respectable but unspectacular 16% of the vote, trailing both the Blancos (34%) and the Colorados (35%). The winning Colorado presidential candidate, wealthy, taciturn Minister of Agriculture Juan M. Bor-daberry, 43, is expected to continue Pacheco's tough response to Uruguay's political and economic problems...
Stoeckel seems to thrive on adversity. After leading his county in passing in his junior year in high school, he suffered a broken collarbone a week before the start of his senior season, and missed the whole year. After a good, though unspectacular freshman year, he came to school this year already behind Crone and Foster. "I knew I would have to start at the bottom, being only a sophomore behind two juniors. I wanted to play, but it didn't seem that I was going to start," he said...
JAPAN Nukes for Nippon? Unlike recent junkets by other Administration officials, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's ten-day swing through Tokyo and Seoul seemed carefully calculated to be thoroughly unspectacular. Laird's message was the same for both allies: they could count on continued protection from the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. nuclear umbrella, but they would have to furnish "credible deterrence" on the ground themselves. Who could get upset over what amounted to yet another sales pitch for the Nixon Doctrine...
Seldom have these ingredients been brought together in such perfect balance as in the New York City Ballet's new instant masterpiece, Choreographer Jerome Robbins' The Goldberg Variations. The unspectacular title refers to the music that both inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part...