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...street-tough union organizer for the so-called "Federation of Interstate Truckers," hardly throws a single punch during the entire proceedings (all right, so he does bludgeon someone to death with an axe handle at the beginning of the movie). Instead, Stallone's Johnny Kovak and Best Friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman), canned from their first factory jobs for union agitation, are tapped as organizers--on a commission basis--for their F.I.S.T. local, and gradually build the union's membership through the use of friendly spiels and free passes to Rocky. Stallone predicates his rise to success within F.I.S.T. (F.I.S.T...
Died. Samuel Belkin, 64, Polish-born chancellor of Manhattan's Yeshiva University; after a long illness; in New York City. Belkin supervised the university's growth from a relatively small seminary to an institution that included America's first medical school (Albert Einstein) and first liberal-arts college for women (Stern) under Jewish sponsorship, as well as several graduate schools...
This audience can be trouble for concert-hall managers. Says Cleveland Promoter Jules Belkin, "They are up on the seats boogieing and running around the hall." Dress ranges from scruffy jeans to $200 velveteen jackets. The girls may come in couples to ogle, say, a topless Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Then there are the brassy groupies with their stevedore vocabularies who haughtily flaunt their backstage passes. The boys come in gangs and do what gangs do -fling lighted matches, fight the bouncers, sometimes toss empty wine bottles. Vomiting from too much beer or wine is a status symbol...
Fruited Plains. For the most part, however, the record (written by a team of comedy writers headed by Gary Belkin) is almost as realistic as an official biography. "Well, you can't lose them all," Nixon intones when told he has won the election. "I see spacious skies and fruited plains and amber waves of grain" is the way Frye has Nixon hallucinating on marijuana...
Cornell coach Eddie Moylan will bring captain Steve Belkin with juniors Toby Marion and Dave Tepper to Cambridge today. Cornell, perenially weak, is no exception this year...