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...years ago, playing the role of an ex-President who dies of cancer, Gargan himself began to complain of a continually sore throat. Doctors discovered he had cancer of the larynx. His voice box was removed, and what was left of his windpipe now ends at a collar-button-level hole in his neck. When he left the hospital, he was speechless. But last week, like the others at the Memphis dinner, Gargan was talking once more-using esophageal speech...
Backlight is the rear window. Mercury's medium-priced Monterey will have one that opens. Press a button and the center section of the backlight slides down on two runners...
...last week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...
...exhibition the Chrysler Museum has several pieces of sculpture on display, including one of four existing young ballet dancers by Degas and a variety of pieces by Rodin. For devotees of assemblage, Kearney's "Chicken Age" will rattle up and down and around at the press of a button. The message of Province town this summer is that in the still shifting sands of artistic fortune the critic is all too prone to narrowness of vision in judging his contemporaries. But the Chrysler exhibit also presents a historical perspective which the critic can survey and begin to mould into...
...five in 1956. Richard Nixon won three in 1960 and polled 4,700,000 votes in the South - only 400,000 less than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...