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...Pacific. The report's authors, ACE Research Director Alexander Astin and his deputy, Alan Bayer, solicited their information from campus officials, pinning them down on specific details to guard against exaggeration. The researchers discovered that far from being pacific, nearly half of the campuses had experienced protests. Astin and Bayer estimate that last year 462 campuses (about 20% of all higher educational institutions) experienced at least one "severe" protest-severe being defined as actions that resulted in injuries, building occupations, class disruptions or destruction of property, as opposed to picketing or vigils...
...Astin and Bayer are quick to point out that the figures represent a clear "downturn" from 1969-70, when incidents were so numerous that no one counted them precisely. No campuses experienced uproars on the same mass scale as those in the bloody spring of 1970. In addition, eruptions did taper off at the highly visible elite colleges and universities that often set the pace. Instead, last year's turmoil became "diffused," moving to the "invisible" campuses that newsmen rarely visit and educational leaders seldom discuss: public four-year colleges, Roman Catholic colleges and two-year private colleges. "Unrest...
...course, for lack of trying. A ragtag unit of the Mexican army, led by General Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos (Peter Ustinov) and Sergeant Valdez (John Astin), straggle across the U.S.-Mexican border, looking simultaneously tired and suspicious. General Max and a sadsack adjutant hijack a car full of gringo tourists and scout the territory. They return to the troops, and in a matter of seconds there is an irregular unit of the Mexican army charging through today's downtown San Antonio on its way to reclaim the Alamo...
Director Jerry Paris manages to ignore whatever humor there is in this situation. Ustinov is merely gross in the title role, Astin looks unhappy, and most of the supporting players-including Pamela Tiffin and Keenan Wynn-wince along with them. Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with...
McCartney, according to LaBour's story, was found pinned under his Astin-Martin, "with the top of his head sheared off," four hours after he drove off on a rainy night in November, 1966. "The surviving Beatles decided to keep the information from the public for as long as possible ...a Paul look-alike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland," LaBour wrote...