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...been published ten years ago, Alistair MacLean's thriller might have transferred effortlessly for a smaller budget to a smaller screen. The plot is not much different from, say, Samuel Fuller's low-budget submarine picture Hell And High Water, and even the magnificence of Cinerama can't conceal the thinness of the story. The Ice Station Zebra souvenir booklet plot synopsis, these usually confined to initial statement of the premise, manages to tell everything up to the last ten minutes without appearing expensive. The souvenir booklet also pretty much gives away who the villain is, which...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...machine, which sorely wants to wrest the Senate seat away from the Democrats. Then, too, Gilligan is a lib eral in a conservative state in what looks like a conservatives' year. Final ly, he is opposed by William Saxbe, 52, a tobacco-chawing country lawyer whose rugged ways conceal a polished political professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Richard Nixon has kept his suntan, and he has tried very hard to get enough rest, but suntan and rest cannot conceal the fact that Richard Nixon is an unattractive man. As he strolled up the center aisle of the Somerset, wisps of curly black Nixon hair were barely visible between the shoulders of the tall secret service men who surrounded the candidate. When Nixon finally reached the stage, he stood alone, unconcealed, pathetic...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Trying to Hate Dick | 10/21/1968 | See Source »

...into a strange bag that's taken me further and further away from blues. The blues is where I belong." After seven years on the road he feels he deserves a vacation. Why so much touring? "We tour to make enough money not to tour." And Clapton can't conceal his amazement over Cream's success. "When we first found out we were going to tour the States I just couldn't believe it. The audiences here are just fantastic. We've done some of our best playing here...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Fierce debate flared during the meeting over the meaning of "all appropriate steps." In a pamphlet called "Disguised Cop-Out," students had complained that such "purposefully ambiguous" phrasing could be used "to conceal a faculty cop-out." Student rallies this week at Berkeley have demanded that the faculty ask for immediate credit for the course...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Cleaver to Teach At U.C. Berkeley | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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