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...Chop. Laos lies, by historical accident, in the shape of a lean lamb chop among six quarreling neighbors. To the Communist countries beyond the mists and granite-blue mountains to the north, Laos in anarchy provides the vital corridor through which to fuel an incessant guerrilla warfare against South Viet...
Godard is Gallically capable of spectacular flights of chop logic ("Marxism and Catholicism are the same"), but in his work he is earthbound with his themes. Molelike behind dark glasses, his hair thinning and his bank account growing, he avoids people and parties, often passes hour after hour with friends while saying almost nothing. His main worry is that the New Wave may be hurt by its worst potential enemy: pretension. "The public," he says, "is happily insensitive to the verbiage of the esthetes. The essential thing is for us to remain lucid, and not take ourselves for the navel...
...case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...
...Buchta, against Don Kirkland, the Crimson's question mark, and Gus Schumacher. But Kirkland, who has developed into a top-notch competitor, killed that idea by staying with Bowers for 880 yards and sending Schumacher off even with Buchta. Schumacher, running behind the diminutive Buchta, was forced to chop his stride, and tried near the end of his leg, falling 10 yards behind...
...informed as to what is going on. Few papers are capable of doing much more than sending a man or two to Washington. For other news, they must rely on the wire services. The services do a bad enough job, but the further damage inflicted by local editors who chop AP copy to bits is quite unnecessary. The old saw the "foreign news doesn't sell papers" is sheer hypocrisy in a one-paper town where the editor doesn't have to worry about sales...