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...Peckinpah Traveling Repertory is on hand: Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Dub Taylor, Slim Pickens. As usual, their small parts are all nicely etched, and there is a superb bit of character work by Richard Bright as a cheap thief who swipes a suitcase full of loot from Ali MacGraw. Al Lettieri, as a hamhanded, slow-talking killer, and Sally Struthers, as a giggly little moll, both overact, in contrast to McQueen and MacGraw...
...quickly as Joe Namath, he has the strength to throw the long bomb and the accuracy to make it count. Pro scouts note admiringly that while leading the Southeastern Conference in passing this season. Jones gave up only seven interceptions in 199 attempts. Son of former Cleveland Brown Receiver "Dub" Jones, the Rifle is already so well versed in pro pass patterns ("He's been throwing to his dad since he was eight years old," says one scout) that some experts think he might be a starter in his first year in the pros. Other strong-armed quarterbacks...
Beginning back in our senior year, Tyrell started to dub himself "The Gale from Yale," after his high school hero, Gale Sayers. In those days it seemed an unlikely dream, but this year it became a reality. The American Dream did not work out for the rest of our friends. Angelo Nutall, a 9.6 hundred man, is in the Marine Corps. Don Thompson, a tough Irish kid who played tackle, signed up for a four-year hitch in the Navy. Russell (Sweet Sing) Singleton went to Vietnam. The others are married and working in the steel mills. The more successful...
...been slugging it out in Houston since 1970, when Neiman-Marcus opened a big store right across from a Sakowitz outlet in suburban Post Oak. The stores sell generally the same kind of goods, the main difference being that some prices are higher at Neiman-Marcus, inspiring customers to dub it "Needless Markup." Most Houstonians remain loyal to the home-town retailers. At Post Oak, the one point where the two compete, Sakowitz's sales are about 25% higher than those of Neiman-Marcus...
...himself a purge victim during Czechoslovakia's Stalin era, has "consolidated" the Communist Party, cutting back its membership by almost one-half, to a total of 1,000,000. Communists thus expelled have usually lost their jobs, together with their party cards. Former Party Chief Alexander Dubček now works as a clerk in the Slovak forestry department, but he earns more than twice as much as hundreds of thousands of minor officials who were ousted with him. Dubček recently wrote to a friend: "If I am getting paid for what I know about this...