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...should tell you, a few other ideas have been floating around. Steiner told me--and I don't think he was pulling my leg--that someone called him from Camp Pendleton wondering whether we would take a few hundred refugees. Something about their wanting to see where it all began. Uncle Sam would build the Quonset huts (I can just see it--Bundy House, Rostow House) if we would provide some kind of training. I told Dan to refer the guy to Bob Wood. But you can see why we need to move fast...
...Pendleton is a slyly winning con man, Irving a pompously discombobulated pol, and the rest of the cast is thoroughly dependable in this wackily comic repast fit for a czar...
Local Suckers. Two of the mayor's more idiotic henchmen report they have discovered the government inspector, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlyestakov (Austin Pendleton), living incognito in a local hotel. This chap is actually an impecunious government clerk from St. Petersburg, but once he appears, sycophancy reigns supreme. Khlyestakov is a fop with the instincts of P.T. Barnum. He rooks the local suckers of all their ready cash, comes close to seducing the mayor's wife (Sloane Shelton) and daughter (Erin Ozker) and then blows town. Like the tolling of the bell of doom, a resplendent attaché arrives from...
Nixon relaxes during the afternoons, frequently getting in a round of golf on the course at nearby Camp Pendleton with his aide, Colonel (ret.) Jack Brennan. Pat Nixon, by all visitors' accounts, is aglow-buoyant and relaxed as she oversees Casa Pacifica or putters in her garden. "I'm loving this place," she told a friend not long...
...Task Force for Indochina Refugees in Washington has been screening 22,000 inquiries received through its toll-free phone lines. "I'd be very pleased if 5,000 sponsors resulted from those inquiries," says Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference office at California's Camp Pendleton. Explains Stahlke: "We're getting a lot of screwballs who are more interested in their own purposes than in the refugees. Some seek cheap labor; others want companionship." A Californian, 44, wrote in for a wife with these specifications: "Godfearing, no dirty background, knows how to speak English, height...