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Campus wits called it "the coronation of the Kingman" and Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. jovially agreed. With two days of pomp and ceremony designed by him to stress that "Yale is an important asset of world civilization," the 263-year-old university last week inaugurated Brewster as its 17th president...
...GUEST. The screen version of Harold Pinter's drama (The Caretaker) retains its major asset, Donald Pleasence, still seedily eloquent in the title role...
...David Kolowitz, though working at Mr. Foreman's machine shop wants to be an actor. His friend Marvin shows him an ad for actors in the New York Post and David quits work early to head for the illegitimate theatre. There he is stunned by the leading lady's asset, her body, but not so completely that he doesn't come back in the end to his girl-friend Wanda, nor enroll in pharamacy school as his parents have urged all along. David is a good...
...picks up the receiver, asks who's calling, and exclaims, "Wanda? What kind name is Wanda?" That's a joke. Yet there are flashes of wit: vicariously excited by David's reports, his friend Marvin asks David if he undressed the leading lady (Yvonne De Carlo--and what an asset she has) or vice versa. David hesitates a second and then debonairly replies, "We got a kid off the streets and paid him a quarter to do it," (After all, it was the Sabbath.) Such moments unfortunately are rare...
...with Lodge the blushing non-candidate. A difficult decision like the advisability of sending guerillas into North Vietnam is made more confusing for Lodge by his candidacy. In weighing short term success versus long range goals, his deliberations cannot help being influenced by an awareness that his greatest political asset is immediate success against the Communists...