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...Governor's love of comfort hardly exceeds that of his predecessor, Horatio Sharpe, whose mansion, Whitehall, contains the only water closet in the Colonies...
...public idol of the most radical state, Hancock was easily elected President of the Congress (after his predecessor, Peyton Randolph, decided to return to Virginia). Although the job involves mostly paper work, Hancock has often served skillfully in mediating differences among the delegations. With similar skill, he conducted a long and arduous courtship of the very social Dorothy Quincy, whom he married last August during the congressional recess...
...dour, stocky political patriarch of South Africa, Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 60, has the ironfistedness his fellow Afrikaners call kragdadigheid. He was known as "Jackboot John" when he served as Justice Minister under his National Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on the floor of the South African Parliament in 1966). The son of a Transvaal farmer, Vorster in his youth joined anti-English Afrikaner nationalist movements, becoming a "general" in what was believed to be a terrorist wing of the so-called Ox Wagon Guard, a pro-Nazi movement. His militant opposition...
...figures. Party Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor Kakuei Tanaka after disclosures of large-scale corruption...
...Like its predecessor, That's Entertainment, Part 2 is heavy with show biz nostalgia that could be dispensed, like programs or refreshment, out in the lobby. The movie takes it for granted that everyone in the audience will grow misty-eyed over these snatches of glory past. What is more saddening, however, is that the musical form has stayed stubbornly stuck; its evolution ended, apparently, in mid-1950s Hollywood...