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...Galy Gay (Mace Rosenstein), a man who just can't say no to anything, leaves his hut to buy a fish and gets sidetracked for life. He runs into a trio of British privates, who act like manic Boy Scouts with switchblades hidden in their pockets (in fact, a butter knife serves). They develop great career plans for him when a buddy of theirs disappears during a group burglary. Galy's not much of a soldier, but what's the difference, one man's like the next and all are adaptable. "Throw him in a puddle and he'll grow...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: A Man's A Man | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

...Harvard plays good sound bread-and-butter squash," he said just before leaving the match. "That's what we're going home to work on the right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Aces Amherst; Crimson Deals a 9-0 Shutout | 12/7/1972 | See Source »

...home there. Thus Nixon's mandate is indeed major, but, like all democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains to be seen how long he can hold it: after the Viet Nam War, the test should be those bread-and-butter, pragmatic issues that the post-McGovern Democrats will undoubtedly try to reassert. In a curious way the President may find that the very fact of his landslide may make Americans doubly watchful and critical of his performance in the next four years?something that should be reinforced by the Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: After the Landslide: Nixon's Mandate | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

SOMETIMES it was difficult to tell who the Democratic presidential candidate was, George McGovern or Edward Kennedy. Whenever Kennedy appeared with McGovern, the crowd invariably doubled. Time and again, cheering spectators would brush past the nominee to gush over an embarrassed Ted. McGovern had trouble articulating bread-and-butter issues for man-in-the-street Democrats-a task that comes easy for Kennedy. While living with impending defeat this fall, Democrats dreamed of victory next time with Ted. No wonder that before the final votes were counted, Kennedy was being touted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Edward Kennedy: Now the Hope | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...party of the Nixon-Connolly rich. Class-conscious visuals would show McGovern visiting a neighborhood that had been block-busted, talking about how both blacks and whites get screwed by the big men on top. Or they would put him first in St. Louis talking about bread and butter issues with white workers then in East St. Louis talking the same line with blacks...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Recounting McGovern's Defeat While the Body Is Still Warm | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

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