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...while shooting a film in Mexico, made the most affecting movie that the new cinema has turned out to date: The Flower Thief. Certainly a vagrant, possibly an imbecile, the film's hero wanders the streets of San Francisco by day, a grown man pulling a little wagon that carries his Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity by Taylor Mead, a Beat poet, the hero is part Chaplin and part Myshkin -a holy...
...Best Deal. Given all the uncertainty, California's Ronald Reagan loomed as an alternate beneficiary of any breakdown in the Romney band- wagon. While Reagan remained preoccupied last week with the first major battle of his administration, the abrasive controversy over the firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr (see EDUCATION), former California G.O.P. Chairman Gaylord Parkinson was spreading the word at New Orleans that the Governor was now "holding the door open" for the presidential nomination. In recent weeks, Texas' Republican Senator John Tower and Florida's new G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk Jr. have made separate pilgrimages...
Anyone who watched television during the past year must have seen a pretty but slightly misty-looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge...
...with its four-wheel drive, the Jeep appeals to the outdoors-minded (notable Jeepniks: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver), who rig it for such chores as plowing snow or use it for wheeling around a ranch. Recently, however, despite frequent refinements and the introduction of the station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk of the company...
Called the Jeepster, a name appropriated from an early Willys model, it retains the familiar boxy design, but otherwise is a far cry from the vintage Jeep. Roadster, pickup truck and station-wagon versions (price: $2,300 to $4,000) are available, but the series' mainstay is a convertible featuring bucket seats, chrome spinner wheels, continental spare tire, and regular windows instead of isinglass curtains-plus such options as air conditioning, automatic transmission and power brakes...