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...this little ramp-like section of road and Chuck was going to turn right, up U.S. 119 towards Clendenin, and Elvin was supposed to go left. Everybody came out of the Elkview Dairy Bar to watch. On the other side of the main highway there was a three-foot ditch and a twenty-foot rock cliff. Somebody asked Elvin what he'd do if he couldn't make the turn and hit the cliff. Elvin said he'd jump that son-of-a-bitch...
...unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by last-ditch supporters of the discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
Each of the chief characters has a gallant last-ditch tenacity that is the mark of Williams' people. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Chamberlain) is a defrocked minister with a penchant for teen-age girls. The hotel proprietor, Maxine Faulk (Sylvia Miles), fancies young Mexican beachboys. The guardians of the spirit as opposed to the flesh are Hannah Jelkes (Dorothy McGuire), a Nantucket spinster, and her ancient 97-year-old poet grandfather Nonno (William Roerick), on whom Hannah's abiding love and care are centered...
...print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...
...cannot afford to be silent again while these efforts go forward. Nor can we content ourselves with hasty, last-ditch efforts to defeat misguided government initiatives," he said...