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...Poppa? (1970), a football coach from a large Southern university admitted to recruiting his teams by kidnaping nine-year-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...
...just fallen-out teeth, and she wrote to the tooth fairy, telling her not to take the teeth away until her father had seen them. And she has other ideas, too, for when her father returns. "I want him to take me to the park, to take me to Disney World, to teach me how to play bowling and not to spank me like Mommy does...
Born. To Hayley Mills, 26, former Disney movie moppet who grew into adult parts (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve), and Roy Boulting, 59, British film producerdirector: their first child (Boulting's eighth), a son; in London. -Married. Nguyen Thi Tuan Anh, 19, only daughter of South Viet Nam's President Thieu; and Nguyen Tan Trieu, 28, son of the director general of Air Viet Nam, the national airline; both for the first time; in Saigon. -Died. Eugene L. Wyman, 48, Los Angeles attorney and Democratic leader whose political fund-raising skill brought millions into the campaign coffers...
...hauls passengers and their autos in separate coaches. Manned by crews from the Seaboard Coast Line and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, the 400-passenger train takes 15 hours to make the 1,000-mile trip from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., which is a few miles from Walt Disney World. One-way fare is $190 for a car and two people, and $20 extra for each additional person. Passengers ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently includes such dishes as chicken kiev, veal parmesan...
...workers this year and increased the average work week to 41.8 hours. Mississippi, though still the only state with per capita income below $3,000, is increasing total personal income by more than 11% per year. The tourist and construction surge in Florida, sparked largely by the Walt Disney World amusement park, has sent an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to the Disney movie Mary Poppins to find a suitable description: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...