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...ever got around to starring Katharine Hepburn, 60, in a musical-possibly for the same reason that no composer has yet written a concerto for duck call. Now the oversight is to be remedied in sensational fashion. Kate has been signed for the title role in next season's Coco, an oversized Broadway musical about Couturiere Coco Chanel that will have a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Andre Previn, and a tab of $500,000. The musical, gestating since 1959, was supposed to star Rosalind Russell, but she got entangled in movie commitments...
Deserting the Ship. Some observers are so convinced Johnson will be beaten next year that they have already concluded he is a lame duck in aspic. "Lots of so-called friends are deserting his ship," said one politician, "the way they were deserting Harry Truman's in 1948 and 1952." Still, it would be unwise to count the President out-or even to rate him an underdog. Despite the challenge from Minnesota Democrat...
...Mills may well be irked with the President for another reason as well. Last fall, when Johnson requested his help in passing a bill to suspend a 7% investment credit, Mills asked for a favor in return. "I want you to issue a proclamation proclaiming 'Duck Day' in Stuttgart, Arkansas," he drawled. At first speechless, Johnson finally replied incredulously: "You want me to proclaim 'Duck Day'?' "Yes," insisted Mills. "In Stuttgart, Arkansas." The President said he would. The investment credit was suspended, thanks to Mills's help. But somehow, Duck Day in Stuttgart never...
Irked by complaints that previous nets had not screened out all contestants of doubtful femaleness, the I.A.A.F. ordered chromosome tests for European Cup competitors at Kiev. Ewa, co-holder of the women's 100-meter world record (11.1 sec.), saw no need to duck the test and readily submitted to having a few cells scraped from inside her cheek for chromosome analysis. On the basis of the microscope's evidence, three Russian and three Hungarian doctors gave the fatal verdict: Ewa is not a woman because she has "one chromo some too many...
...this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board to the point where he can work as a TV repairman and even winch himself into a pirogue to go duck hunting...