Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Forbes occasionally indulges in fashionable camera trickery, such as freezing the action into a still shot at a critical moment, but King Rat scarcely needs that kind of help. There is sizzling intrigue in a diamond-peddling deal, corrosive humor in King's plan to breed rats and peddle their flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies...
...Steve Diamond, thought lost for the season with a broken bone in his wrist, has been given clearance to return to the football team after x-rays on Monday revealed that the bone wasn't broken after...
...been amply proved that Harvard's offense cannot move the ball with any consistency against a good defensive line. The loss of Harvard tackle Steve Diamond will impair the Crimson's attack even further. John McCluskey's passing has been improving slowly, but it is not so good that Harvard can count on him to supply much offensive thrust...
...Investigator Donald Appell's questioning of Shelton disclosed that the Klan's monthly "Imperial Tax" of 50? per member went into the account of a dummy organization called the Alabama Rescue Service, whose only ostensible mission was to provide Klandestine Kash for Shelton's 1965 Cadillac, diamond rings and grocery bills. Furthermore, Shelton's tax returns showed only about $18,000 of the $32,000 received in 1964 Klan taxes as Klan corporate income. Cried Ohio Republican John Ashbrook: "It's just a question of who gets him first-the Internal Revenue Service, or Congress...
...Diamond's right tackle slot will be filled by 217-pound sophomore Bob Brooks, who was outstanding on defense for the freshmen last year but who has had little varsity experience this year...