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...family on television." He added: "We have a dog, too, called Pumpkin." At a convention of the Retail Clerks International Association in Honolulu, where the McGovern-Eagleton ticket got a labor endorsement that was all the more welcome because of the crisis, Eagleton invoked Harry Truman, a predecessor as a U.S. Senator from Missouri and as a Democratic candidate for Vice President. "I hope I have some small measure of the guts he possessed," said Eagleton. The shouting delegates replied: "Give 'em hell, Tom!" It was an eloquent self-defense and a larruping attack on the Republican enemy. Eagleton...
...Sadat rewarded the Arab Socialist Union Congress with a first-class example of it. Mopping his brow often in a sultry hall, modulating his voice from whisper to thespian holler, Sadat delivered a largely off-the-cuff speech that was twice as long as any address delivered by his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and every bit as dramatic. Excerpts...
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is the fourth installment in an apparently endless series of simian science fiction (TIME, June 5). For a while, each chapter (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America...
RICHARD KATTEL, 36, president of Citizens & Southern National Bank, the largest in Georgia, with assets of $2.27 billion. "When I'm in New York, people can't believe I'm president of a big bank," says Kattel. In fact, his longtime predecessor, Mills B. Lane, who spotted Kattel as an up-and-coming executive and named him as his personal assistant in 1966, is still the bank's chairman, though he lets the young president use his own judgment about practically everything. Among other projects, Kattel helped initiate a real estate investment trust that...
...will the new Premier deal with the problems that proved so troublesome for his predecessor? The emphasis on consensus in Japan's politics probably rules out radical departures. Moreover, for all of his talk of action (see box, page 24), Tanaka has no record as an innovator, even though he was one of the first Japanese politicians to recognize the country's environmental problems. He is on record with a proposal to disperse Japan's highly concentrated industries and redistribute the population among new villages and towns. Each would be surrounded by green belts and linked...