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...considers ineptness. Mike Nichols says that "after three days' rehearsal for Plaza Suite I told him I didn't know what I was going to do with him for the next three weeks because he was perfect. But he stayed around anyway, working with the other actors." Richard Lester, who directed Scott in Petulia, found him "intelligent, constructive, decent, professional. If there was a difference of opinion between us, we worked it out in five or ten minutes." Enormously sure of his own instinct for material, Scott was handed the manuscript of Plaza Suite in a restaurant by Playwright Neil...
When former Representative Charles Longstreet Weltner of Atlanta, the 39-year-old great grandson of the author of the Confederate Constitution, gave up his Democratic nomination for a third term in Congress rather than abide by a party loyalty oath that would have required him to support Lester Maddox, a colleague in the House commented, "We may have to wait another 50 years before we get another Charlie Weltner...
...Street responded to the battle by marking down the stock prices of several independent firms, which had been regarded as glamor issues. Naturally, some independents rushed to the New York Society of Securities Analysts to give reassurances from its lectern. Rebutting contentions that IBM may squash its smaller rivals, Lester Kilpatrick, president of California Computer Products, argued: "IBM, not the independents, is on the defensive. For the first time in its history, IBM has been forced to lower prices to retain its predominant share of the market. The rest of us can prosper...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law; Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School; and Harvey G. Cox, professor of Divinity, are members of the group, which was formed last December to work for reform of the drug laws...
...classic promises of segregation forever, of a last stand at the schoolhouse door. Six newly sworn Deep South Governors have been taking a startlingly calmer line since the new year began. Most striking example: the inauguration of Georgia's Jimmy Carter, who stepped in front of his predecessor, Lester Maddox, and an audience of 5,000 to declare: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." Throughout the South, there has been a note of acceptance, of moving on to the problems long neglected while race dominated the sectional debate...