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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This remarkable exercise in betteir communication between the two so cieties was topped off with a vodka-and-caviar reception in the hotel's ballroom overlooking the Moscow skyline. In a gesture that heartens admen the world over, Vneshtorgreklama President Anatoliy V. Vasilyev asked to see a rate card. And to Charlie Bear's diplomatic comment that "all things are accomplishable by time and effort," Vasilyev replied that "the time for TIME is propitious...
Minus a Tentacle. 1965's biggest winners were those who capitalized on this hardheaded attitude. "There is no vote in this city which can be taken for granted," concluded Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay after New York's overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected him mayor (see cover story). His comment could have been echoed by politicians in scores of cities and counties where the electorate refused to buy a pig in a poke...
...response to a question, he forecast John V. Lindsay, mayor-elect of New York City, as the Republican Party's next bright light. But he commented that Richard M. Nixon was a more likely choice for the party's 1968 Presidential nomination...
...well-oiled New York Republican machine, perhaps the most brainy and certainly the richest state political party, is dissolving for reasons beyond its control. Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage will cost the Republicans the Governorship, and reapportionment will put the legislature beyond their reach. Their only hope is John V. Lindsay, who will face a tough fight for reelection in 1969, and who has no opening for higher office in 1966, 1968 (unless Javits retires or runs for Vice-President), 1970 (when Robert Kennedy will be leading the Democratic ticket), or 1972 (when no Senator or Governor will be elected...
...card duel between the two hot-handed pros generates all the expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...