Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trump Card. Percy's time is more likely to come in 1972 than next year. Another attractive young Republican in much the same situation is Lindsay, also mentioned for both spots. Lindsay squelches such talk and categorically refuses to consider a national campaign -on anybody's ticket. That, after all, is only sensible. He has been mayor for less than 22 months, needs more time to prove his worth-and to win re-election in 1969-before he can raise his sights. In 1970, he could run for Senator or Governor, whichever post that Bobby Kennedy...
...well prove a formidable opponent by 1972 or 1976 for Bobby or any other Democrat. He is a dove on Viet Nam, but maintains: "I do not believe, and never have, that the U.S. should unilaterally withdraw from Viet Nam tomorrow." His intimacy with the urban crisis is his trump card for the future, since that is likely to be the No. 1 U.S. domestic problem for generations...
Even better for Broadway's tired blood is the infusion of at least six new U.S. playwrights v. last year's one (Woody Allen). Edward Albee's own company, Theater 1968, is producing 39-year-old Actress Mary Mercier's Johnny No-Trump, the growth pains of a New York teenager. Another actor turned author, Stephen Levi, 26, will make his debut with Daphne in Cot tage D, starring William Daniels and Sandy Dennis as the widow of a famous movie star. Other hopefuls of the coming season...
Down 4-1, Harvard appeared headed for the second singles point needed to carry the decision into the doubles, the Crimson's usual strong trump. Number five man Jose Gonzalez, Harvard's most dependable performer for the past two seasons, had won his first set and led 5-3 in the second...
Hefner has also experienced some commercial failures, including Show Business Illustrated, which folded after nine issues with an estimated loss of $2,000,000, and Trump, a Mad-like humor magazine. On the other hand, the newly formed Playboy Press is thriving; last year, it sold $1,000,000 worth of books, most of them containing reprints from the magazine. At present, Playboy's staff is moving into larger quarters in Chicago's venerable Palmolive Building, leased for 63 years for $2,700,000. Thanks to eager press-agents, the building's famed beacon, whose beam can be seen...