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...RISE OF KHRUSHCHEV (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC's 1963 White Paper on Nikita-the-Bold's ascent to the throne left vacant by Stalin. Chet-the-Huntley narrates. Repeat...
...says: "I think he's so bad all you have to do is to picture him as he is." Paul Conrad of the Los Angeles Times also claims, "I don't put in any more than I see." What he sees is a jutting jaw and a vacant, bewildered face. The Atlanta Constitution's Clifford Baldowski gives Goldwater frazzled hair "going off in all directions like the wild...
...memory, at 83, isn't quite what it once was, and she does have her quirks, such as keeping a Manhattan mansion vacant and boarded up on a $6,000,000 plot at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street. No matter. She is Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles...
...caisson-make the trip, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has both grandeur and grubbiness. As it stretches toward the Capitol, the stalwart neoclassical façades of federal buildings rise evenly on the right. But on the left side is an uneven collection of old hotels, decayed storefronts vacant above the first floor, and dreary parking lots...
Spare & Witty. Kennedy believes that a bishop should be a teacher as well as an administrator, and just about every Sunday of the year he finds a vacant pulpit to preach from. His sermons are a far cry from the stem-winding exercises in dour purple prose that 19th century congregations loved. His language is spare and unchurchy, larded with wit and timely references to the secular world around him. Yet his message is always related more to eternal truths than to the morning's headlines...