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With pigskin in hand, the 6 ft.-2 in. Californian is cool and smooth. With a telephone cord nervously wrapped between his knockwurst sized fingers, the high cheekbones, battered nose, and crack between the front teeth express discomfort and tension...
...Texas Christian University lay on the ground before 63,000 spectators, unable to move. Moments before, he had been toting the pigskin, trying to gain yardage for his team. Yet there he lay, the victim of a jarring tackle which landed him upside down. The result: a damaged spinal cord and instant paralysis from the neck down...
Meningitis-inflammation of the parchment-like covering of the brain and spinal cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those...
...regime had prosecuted a girl from Ipanema who went topless, and then permanently prohibited mammary nudity. Undaunted, the girls of Rio invented the String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega (buttock) rather than peito (breast) admirers. The String spread to Italy a while ago, and now it is having...
...average of cheapie sci-fi entertainments. Director Roley does not enhance audience involvement by shooting everything through a diffusion filter. Obviously derived from The Birds, Chosen Survivors is also strictly for them. Or maybe for the made-for-TV movie market, where most of the cast - Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Diana Muldaur - customarily find work...