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THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1900.
THE TOWAWAY
spear-carrier gets
Washington.
FOR the dark young dad strolling through Washington's Rock Creek path with his two daughters and a little spotted dog the best-of-all Christmas presents vame just one day late.
the
It come on December 27, T Republican nomination for presidency this year, all wrap- ped up like a Christinas bombon, from irretty as
please, YOU Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
of New York.
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For today, tollowing "Rocky's”. starting announcement that he withdrawla from
con- tention for the Repubilean
notation, 10 Party's seriously debts thal Vier President Richard Nixon seven
from
will ΣΤΑΓΑΚΗΣ
be nominated by acclaim by the
1,383 Regaibicar delegates The Chlease convention.
now
And more than ever, with the Rockefelter, of Mr veurement the nilionaire vote-getter with The taste for hot dogs, dark bearded Dicky Nixor, looks to seasoned observers like the next ccupant of the White House,
The Hockefeller I-won't-run acement was a bombshell It has whippet the bubbly hath
of American polities into a rare
froth.
Both Republicans and De
by surprise, are rats, caught
to judge its bee-busy trying effect on the presidential elec- then this November 8,
On the Republican Party eun, it leaves Dick Nixo
The so-in man for the remiation.
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In the Democratie comp, with massive row among half.. candidates It: wezen would-bu full swing. i just mig hel, the chances of Mr Adlai Steven. son for a third turn of bearia, his party's standard in the fight fer the White House.
Cover boy
Rot Brst et un analyse the autonishing decision of Governar Rockefeller
He was the" enver-boy candi- date with everything undītime- elly needed to become Presidera of the United Stater bra, backgrcaini, and beauty (the American politicos term for the ability to attract the ladies Lates).
mate them forget that he was born with a sliver spoon in he mouth.
Un December 27 last year he was weighed by Mr Nixon fanoidable and doughty challenger for their party's. tandard this year.
But new Rockefeller is out, observers and many political belere he was a victim of the public opinioni polls.
ju
A
his chance
to become
President
FROM ROSS · MARK
over using Government funds for helping foreign nations with birth control. Senator Kennedy Roman Catholic, and the mamer in which this Catholte rained? suddenly wiinked
all the ancient feeling about a Catholic Pre- Aldent haylag conflicts of in- terest
During the sumber he in- vated Dick Nixon territory,
ix-Star
through the mwing Mid-Wert into California, To
insure disappointment he has bitter sound that party lenders almost were everywherY sakish Air Nixon their first
zbości.
he went
Then he found this sentiment efected in public opinion polis And, I learn, last month he yard that new polls, as yet
published, showed Nixon gaming on him.
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These polls suggested Vice- President Nixon as beating him And Governor by four to one.
who many montis Rockefeller. ago said he will be guided by The polls decided to quit,
Acid
Mr
1 announcement was acti Not once did he mention Nikom.
He found, he said, that any que for the Republican nonination would
as
entail massive struggle. That would interfere with his duties Governer. Also it may have dehisin in the Repub- lican Convention,
Although he said he would ret romskler running for, Vice- Prendent under Mr Nixon, diere will be a colossal amount o pesare on Rockefeller to change his decision.
But don't make the mistake 1.2 forgetting about Governor Rockefeller He still rand be Preistent at the United States, A 55 he can afford to walt.
Despite political naivete, he was hailed in a Dist-rate vote- Ketter His hearty hand ucllowed shake. I-like-you untile, and Rair for getting on with people
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-in a Burlon-m-Trent brevery magazine article suggesting that changing drinting habit- Britain and extend in fond
CINAILS
Pratee
Mellow
Mr Nixon himself is today a and well-balanerd man compared with the young Tellow who rode on the Eisen- hower coat talls in 1952.
he
wis
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Neverthalew Senator Kennedy will enter the Democratic con- vention with more committed delegates than any other candl- Ante,
"TOWOWNT
But Mr
¿CAR PERK
• SENATOR STUART SYM- INGTON, a blond, faliber-figure ot a politician from Miamorari, has the backing of former Pre- sident Harry Truman. observers remember that Trumon's help was no help to Averell Harriman in 1954.
● SENATOR HUBERT HUM- PHREY, of Mirmosola, is the darling of the Liberal wing- and so can hope for life sup- port from Southern delegates.
All of which 18 Th strolling through the park near
• SENATOR LYNDON his home with daughters. Tricia, of Texas, 13, and Julie, 11, and the BAINES JOHNSON, the Democratle leader of the spotted
Checliers, Mr America's
Miron second
walidng happily Serinte,
heart-attack fthous
along like a man on an invisible most vletim. He has little support tranipoline. in the North.
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~London Eeptors Servicel.
with four white Arab stallions-and the name's Hur!"
London Espreis Seretne
do not lie about
my age... I'm 37 and
I still want a baby'
-AVA GARDNER
AST month it was Ava Gardner's birthday and she gave
a small He has party in her flat in Rome which looks out over the dome of St Peter's Cathedral. We sat there together the other day and she put more logs on
For the lost seven years has been the Republican spear- did not carrier because Ike relish local polities.
agacity, and ruthless skill,
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equited himeelf with dority,
He looms well-curary to the open fire as the pale sun touched down behind the hills of Rome, We and dangerous opponent for the talked of the past and of the vital year that lies ahead.
Democrats.
Each of the main Democratic hopefuls certainly seems
Ire
more vulnerable to attack
:
may replace jellied
far her
I had made a mistake in
that dity. thought he would be 35, but
age
cels, and fish and chips he history has any party nomi- was 19 when I was 20.
Frogy IrgN
irt
supplanted by Britain, while the French may develop a taste for Erlah Kiru and bolled beet and dumplings.
London Express Service)
• MR ADLAJ STEVENSON she said: "I still be 37 then. I has twire gone down to defeat do not lie about my age. 1 never
Well, did oner. tole against the Eisenhower-Nixon do. team. Never before in American Arlle Shaw when I met him I
"Years later I got to thinking about the reason for that ord I decided it was all bound up with my missing education.
neted a two-time loser.
• Handyme SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY suffered heavily in of the Bishops" "Battle
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"Can anyone remember what we started out to make?"
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by DAVID LEWIN
"You see, I didn't have very much higher schooling.
"So when I met Artie Shaw 1 felt I didn't know very much and, as an excuse, I ed."
It is one of Miss Gardner's great virtues that she is honest and direct. I said to
her: "Looking back this birth- day, what are the things that you have missed most?"
I
"I'd like to have chidren. em from a large family (the youngest of seven) and
restant three times over.
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Retiring...
awn
We pulled our chairs closer after years of living in Spain, is
It was dark now. fluent to the fire. She had been wearing a simple,
But wlure will her home elegant black dress because in
be? Her memories and her the morning, she had been re-
thinks of ceived by the Italian President, family and she often -- are Now she changed into a white them woollen jersey jacket, checked Carolina. But home? skirt, and low-heeled shoes.
her.
Jun
North
E asked
Yes.
She guid: "In Spain.
"I'd like to have children of
i+You know," he said, get I'd like to
to retire next Also in England.....I'd like to Isn't think I'm going Being single Darried.
year. Retire from having to have somewhere in England to the best of living, but getting nute films. I'd like to do them come to.
And... yes, also in married.just to have a child when the subject or the part is Hunolulu. I'm restless. I'd like isn't the best reason either. I really good Not because I three places. don't want to make a mistake have to earn the money.
She looked at me and the about marringo again.
not having mid; children education.
"I
miss
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"I like to travel, but, of enurse, li doco depend a bit on
"I have always worked up to "Thirty-seven isn't 100 old to new for the money. Fo: 17 the man I many, have a baby, in ft?"
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• Now just a minats, dent, I didn's get that much got my
yours I wan one company
under contract to
"I don't covet physical posses- In Hollywood... M.-G.-M. Last year I was tree sions. They don't mean all that of them und I make my own to me. I like clothes and the decisions Pow. I was given a fert in a girl:h way, but I don't
persion from M.-G.-M. Not u big one, but stlli a punelon,
Vivid
"Now when I want to work I work for myself."
"How will you plan your time?" I asked her.
"I don't plon," she said. ''ve never planned anything. 1 never thought I'd get this far when I started. I'm just lucky.
tell you
rush to collect furs or jewels, I'd like a small salf-boat one day-something to call myself uff the coast of Spain.
"I don't have any regrets. except, of course, for the mis- tukes I've made and the things I've missed. But I ke my life. Why is someone always coming up with this bit about poor little lonely Ava?
Pimento
any
left
"I like my life the way it is, "Bil
what I'd I'm happy. Would I bo # to do. I'd like to go to happier if I had never
Once just before I home? f'd still be #chool.
P typist finally left Hollywood, about there. So I'm not scared of seven or eight years ago, I was getting old and I'll never be Boing to An analyst and he like those women who look in supposted I took some private mirrors and worry about the
ravages of time and all that."
On the Bilin set she is Dirk popular, and her co-star
fondity Bogarde
calle her "Mam" and sho Journs her bought some bookman H. G. lines and gets on with the job Welle history,
tuition,
Travel
**I went to a sweet woman. I
volume on and talks about her luck but
philosophy, a set of encyclo- pedia-and we picked subjects and I read and wrote essays,
never her talent.
Not for a moment does sho think ot Hollywood. "I've “Then I came to live in
sho spid never missed it," Europe an I don't go to an "What's to "mndes?' I just work- analyst any Here, but I'd like ad there. It is eight years since
to gu
to school, I'm shy of Ilott When I go back people now-I wasn't when I visita now I'm a stranger, ànd 09 a child but I wouldn't although I used to pretend to
be shy of going to class."
be part of it, I don't pretend
my more."
It was late and we went out to small trattoria to eat and
In the years I have known Her I have been with Ava Gardner in many countries and men her in varying circuzo-
She lo such a vivid then we came back and stayed beauty and vital personally up for hours listening to re- dorda and playing that "Guden that her moments of enim self- Astrament are the more strik- Who I Am?" game, and then we were hungry again and Awa ing.
said: “I'll fix some spaghetti.
found a new
way with canned 'pitatio Dopper. It's
In tome she is making a film I've called "templation" 10 'o chopped sweet Spanish dancing girl (a prosti- and, diced green tule, whipers the script) who groat” fall in love with a priest during It was, too.. the civil war.
London Roxpave" (jurvise
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