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...olds and training them mercilessly until they came of competition age. One longs for the inspired insanity of such a notion during this slack and dreary comedy from Walt Disney studios. The idea here is that the coach of a smalltown college (John Amos) and his cretinous assistant (Tim Conway) stumble on a kind of peroxide Tarzan (Jan-Michael Vincent) and import him from Africa to bring athletic glory to the campus. The jokes are either raucously insipid or coyly racist (Africans and their quaint primitive ideas). Vincent seems very much in his element swinging from a vine. Conway sounds...
...religious clauses of Article 44 have long been an embarrassment to both church and state. All three parties in the Irish Dáil (Parliament) have favored their repeal for the past five years. Ireland's Catholic primate, William Cardinal Conway, has declared repeatedly that he "would not shed a tear" to see them go. Two months ago, Prime Minister Jack Lynch cautiously decided to put the question to the Irish people in a referendum...
Despite the fact that Cardinal Conway and most of the church hierarchy supported the referendum, many Catholic priests and laymen feared that repeal would have a sort of moral domino effect, leading the country toward permissiveness and degeneracy. "Do the fathers and mothers of Ireland want to see their children reared in an Irish-type St. Pauli, Soho or Pigalle?" demanded Dublin Accountant Desmond Broadberry, father of 17 children and member of the committee to "Defend 44." (He was referring to the pleasure zones of Hamburg, London and Paris.) "We urge a massive yes to a new Ireland...
...assume that Harvard, as the country's foremost educational institution, would play a part in any film about Massachusetts." Robert J. Conway, a commissioner's assistant in the Commerce Department, said yesterday...
...Cairns, said that the idea behind the film comes from a study of life in 22 industrial states done earlier this year by Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge. The study published under the title "Quality of Life," concluded that Massachusetts was a "pretty good place to live Conway raid...