Word: blow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand of Presidential politicking has brought another harbinger of spring to the state. Long before the first robin will blow in from the South, farmers have begun to notice flocks of students moving in from Eastern colleges. They are part of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's "kiddie corps" canvassing voters for the April 2 Presidential primary...
...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...Chinese are supplying the V.C. and North Vietnamese with a new 107mm. rocket that made its deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
...spectacular achievement. For Harvard, however, it was another blow in a year of disasters. Their first eight had been declared ineligible for the Henley Regatta. The Grand Challenge Cup Committee had excluded the first boat because of a rule that a crew must have an amatuer coach during its last six weeks of training...
Senator McCarthy's success in New Hampshire will deal a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the radical anti-war movement at Harvard and across the country...