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...SIGN in a Chicago appliance store urges: "SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT, BUY A FREEZER." That prompted Chicago Daily News Columnist Robert J. Herguth to ask: "After 90 days, a sale on defrosters?" All over the U.S., the freeze is touching people's lives in myriad ways. A sampling of its effects last week...
...Quentin prison yard last month (TIME, Sept. 6), his distraught mother charged that the escape attempt was actually "set up" and amounted to murder by prison authorities. Her accusation was dismissed out of hand by most, but it prompted an emotional piece by Tom Wicker, Washington-based columnist for the New York Times. "Many others," Wicker wrote, "mostly black perhaps, but not a few of them white, will not find it hard to agree with his mother...
...daring reversal," Chicago Today declared: "That's statesmanship." But Nixon reminded the Louisville Times of the girl who, "protesting she would never consent, consented. In his new economic plan he is doing what he said he did not want to do and would not do." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker described the role of Treasury Secretary lohn Connally in the policy switch as a "virtuoso performance" and foresaw "a remarkable Republican ticket next year, featuring one man who looks like Richard Nixon and another who sounds like Lyndon Johnson...
Another western for swingers. Doc, Frank Perry's new film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke