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Careful Letter. By week's end, everybody seemed ready to cool down somewhat. In Washington, nine Senators, including Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Sparkman, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics...
...beautiful women, Humphrey Bogart's hat and Neil Simon's jokes," crowed squint-eyed Actor Peter Falk, he of the unspeakable raincoat (Columbo). "I'm not saying it's heaven. But it's at least across the hall." In this case, near-Valhalla is the forthcoming Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt...
...thoughtful Americans - particularly those old enough to have seen the nation at its best - are likely to agree. That adviser to many Presidents, Lawyer Clark Clifford, does. "I don't think there's been any radical change in the American character," he says. And ever buoyant Hubert Humphrey, mulling the Marshall Plan days last week, ventured a feeling that seems typical in Washington: "I think we would do it over again - if the same circumstances existed...
...Hubert Humphrey, LL.D., Minnesota
Later, the theater swells with the sounds of As Time Goes By, and it is Casablanca's turn. But in this revisionist history, Ingrid Bergman does not ask Sam to play it again. Humphrey Bogart sends her off in her airplane telling her that the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but she only complains about that lousy music: "I haven't heard a word anyone has said...