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...hands dirty alongside the working men at 100 different jobs around the state. In Alabama, Fob James, a millionaire sporting-goods magnate, used Memphis Media Consultant Deloss Walker plus $1 million to convince voters through television that he was the fresh face needed to succeed George Wallace. In California, Ken Rietz, a former head of Young Voters for President Nixon, is helping Republican Evelle Younger spend $1.75 million in television money in his final blitz to unseat Governor Jerry Brown...
...toga" have struck a nerve in the fad-starved youth of contemporary Fraternity Row. For many, dressing up in a bed sheet is simply a means of venting the pressures of academia; for others, toga parties represent a search for something to be remembered by, even if that to ken of remembrance is borrowed from the '50s generation...
...Ken Paoline, director of the CAP, said he hopes to make Lowell the national center for Franco-Americans...
...consumer helpers were also only dimly aware of each other until the conference. "These people are so damn excited to see each other that they stay up most of the night talking," reported a bleary-eyed Ken Rashid, an official of the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission. In the bars, halls and hospitality suites of the Corning Hilton, Action Lines told each other their troubles. Not their troubles, mind you, but other people...
...Peckinpah school to get your kicks on blood and gore. It may also indicate that there are some virtues in the straightforward approach of someone like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very irritated indeed...