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Final Fling. Nonetheless, the old showman is not giving up. There are schemes to make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...
...anything stereotyped," Ben Sacks keeps insisting. As a showman, he seems to have taken the advice of the three jaded strippers in Gypsy--namely, you've gotta have a gimmick if you want to get ahead. While the Sack Theatres are basically fairly conservative establishments, they are not above a few well chosen publicity stunts...
...been 14 years since The Harvard Guide to American History, first assembled in 1896, was revised by Handlin, Arthur Schlesinger, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Paul H. Buck. In what was the kitchen of the house the Warren Center now lives in, Richard K. Showman, formerly in charge of educational exhibits at Sturbridge Village, is working full-time to bring the bibliography up to date, under the general supervision of Frank Freidel...
...West, there are skeptics. Some Soviet scientists consider Professor Zigel to be something of a showman. Yugoslav Astronomer Tatomir Anzelić, in a revealing comment about contemporary Eastern European life, says: "So many people are taking drugs, it's no wonder they are prepared to believe that the Martians are coming." The Poles, who have had an abundance of UFOs but a shortage of meat, are whimsical; they are saying that it is really too bad that the flying platters are as empty as those on earth...
Flamboyant Showman Roy Hofheinz already has his own personal steel and Lucite colosseum-the $38 million Houston Astrodome. But he figured that the old Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could...