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...kept his sense of humor throughout the ordeal, although his neologisms ("presibuster" for the Ervin hearings, "probephiliacs" for those investigating Watergate) are shorter on style than many of his admirers had expected. One of his more inventive efforts was a savagely funny parody of Kipling's Gunga Din that impugned the credibility of John Dean: "You will claim that you obeyed/ But the truth is you betrayed/ A far better man than you are, Gunga Dean...
...date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that he would gladly carry a banner down the Champs-Elysées if he thought it would help stop the tests...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL. The Thirty-nine Steps, The General, Mar. 9, 10, 8 & 10 p.m., $1. Kid's Film Festival: The Golden Fish, The Rink, with Charlie Chaplin, Gunga Din with Mr. Magoo; three cartoons, Mar. 10, 10 a.m. and 12 midnite, $.50 (midnite showing $.25 with stub from Fri. or Sat. night...
Strange things have a way of happening when rival teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
...Hughes. Or . . . Ladislas Farago is just a fancy new pen name for Clifford Irving. The allusions were inevitable. Farago himself expected them. Indeed, when Clifford Irving's hoax autobiography of the recluse billionaire was exposed ten months ago, Farago decided to delay his research on Bormann until the din died down. "I said to myself," he recalled last week, "no matter what I'm going to do, this is going to be regarded in the same category. Even if I bring Martin Bormann back with me personally and exhibit him in the Felt Forum of Madison Square Garden...