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...more than the career of John Lindsay-or even the stability of the nation's largest city-was at stake. The same forces of race and poverty, fear and instability that transfix New York now are present in scores of other U.S. cities, large and small. New York contains all the elements that are directing the course of the 1968 election cam paign. New Yorkers' concern with the quality of life, with impersonal or unresponsive organizations, with law and order-all these are national issues. Historically, New York is a pattern setter. If it should prove ungovernable...
When TV added sight to sound, the hope was that the comic scene would be enriched with visual as well as verbal guffaws. Instead, the Big Eye seems to transfix comedians into frozen-faced patter-pushers. Visual gags, when they happen, are a cut below Charley's Aunt. With vaudeville dead, the turn of last resort has been the old silents. Last week some of this vintage wackiness seemed to have rubbed off on Comedian Ernie Kovacs who interrupted his regularly scheduled program of reruns, Silents, Please, with a half-hour of bubbleheadedness of his own. While...
...Adenauer had insisted that he intended to stand a fourth time for Chancellor in the 1961 elections. His own candidate for President was his Vice Chancellor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the rotund, popular engineer of the German economic miracle. But for once, the icy Adenauer eye failed to transfix his party's politicos. Rebellious Bundestag backbenchers protested that to make Erhard President would be to deprive the Christian Democratic Party of "our best vote-getter in 1961," and Erhard himself declined the offer (TIME, March 16). A successful defiance of Adenauer was something...
...help of native labor, a rich tobacco crop springs from the land, and Actress Greco gets noticeably productive herself. But the natives go off on a binge instead of liftin' that bale, and she loses the child while a crocodile looks on gloomily. Why should a stillbirth transfix a crocodile? It must have been the bright lamplight, reasons Todd, and with this invaluable clue, he soon bags himself enough crocodile skins to keep the handbag industry going for a year...
...eldest daughter, in 1900, and was a close friend and business aide of his father-in-law until his death in Rome in March 1913. Satterlee's 583-page book, now published after 26 years, is astonishingly complete, high-minded, reverent, and occasionally ingenuous or supercilious enough to transfix non-Union Club readers...