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Plot ain't much. By James Edward Grant (The Alamo) and Clair Huffaker, out of a novel by Paul I. Wellman, the script describes how John Wayne and Stuart Whitman make buzzard meat out of, oh, about 700 greasy renegades-yellow-bellied skunks running guns to the Comanches. (Actually, Big John does the job by himself. Stu is like the human figure beside the geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman...
...mild humor in the repetitions, whether of the family's deadness or the offstage boy friend's didactic, doctrinaire lust for life. The humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters; and in a theater season of flaccid falsity, there is something to respect in the way it rings true. But there should be more to respond to, something with personal as well...
Summer instruction began at the University in 1871 with a course in botany. The following summer approximately 50 students took part in a research project in natural history conducted on Penikese Island in Buzzard...
Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
Born. To Stanley Frank Musial, 38, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder-first baseman, who has parlayed a coil-spring batting stance, quick wrists and buzzard-sharp eyes into seven National League batting titles and a roster of alltime records, and Lillian Labash Musial, 38: their third daughter, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Jean. Weight...