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...duet lasted only minutes, but to the mesmerized audience it seemed to have gone on for an enchanted eon. In a way, it had. For the couple onstage, last week's duet climaxed a full half-century of love and labor in which the dance had finally taken root in the U.S. theater, to grow and to flower until its inventive brilliance influenced the art in every corner of the world...
...root of this Republican resentment is one of the basic facts of U.S. journalistic life: most members of the working press are inclined to the Democratic side of politics. The working Republicans know it, and therefore see signs of slant in the coverage that they get. Thus Donald Lukens, the chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, has called for more young Republicans to become journalists "to promote honest and accurate reporting of the Republican cause...
True. But the root question is still whether the war can ever be won so long as the north continues its input of terror. Last week Washington officials would not predict that extension of the war could be avoided before the November election, although of course they hoped that with the buildup in the south it could be avoided. Said one: "Whether we can get through the election [without escalation] is almost up to Hanoi. If it turns out that they are infiltrating very large numbers into South Viet Nam, we would have to rethink." U.S. policymakers could only hope...
...Angeles' trial lawyer Gladys Towles Root, 58, is a one-woman courtroom spectacular. Fuchsia, fire engine and living lava are her favorite colors. Feathers and furbelows rise to Alpine proportions above her peroxide French twist. Her earrings would make a Ubangi wince, and her defense of the Sinatra kidnaping last February was equally gaudy. "The evidence," said she, "is that Frank Sinatra Jr. was running the show. How, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you like that?" Not much they didn't, and a Los Angeles grand jury last week decided they thought Gladys a bit much...
...reached the root, and fed upon...