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...school busing and welfare reform, possibly because the state has few blacks. One national issue which seems to stir lingering emotions is the war in Viet Nam-although at nowhere near the high pitch of four years ago. "This war kept a lot of younger people back," notes Alexander DuMesnil, Berlin's assistant police marshal. "My son was afraid he'd get drafted, and he still might. But the tenseness is going away-he's getting ready to buy a car." Bob Kohler, a Viet Nam veteran at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, protests quietly...
Some residents express downright hostility toward the candidates. "These politicians, what do they care about us?" asks Berlin's DuMesnil. "The only time we see them is when they're looking for a few votes." At a high school assembly in Milford, a student opened the questioning of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke by asking: "Senator, do you think students should be forced to come to these political rallies?" Hartke said no-and the student promptly walked out. As polltakers, reporters and canvassers for the candidates keep probing the voters, resentment is growing. "The people are getting tired...
...Cash Clay did that mural himself. Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. is a sign painter. Up there where it says KING KARL'S THREE ROOMS OF NEW FURNITURE on Market Street-he did that, just as he painted A. B. HARRIS, M.D., DELIVERIES & FEMALE DISORDERS on Dumesnil Street, Louisville. His son, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., has just turned 21 and has far larger ambitions. "I'm gonna drive down Walnut Street in a Caddy on Derby Day." he says, "and all the people will point and say, 'There goes Cassius Clay.' Pretty girls will be there...
Billed as "Hollywood's newest heartthrob," hawk-faced Vittorio Gassman makes himself thoroughly despicable as Anna's chief debaucher. Raf Valone is the straight man who loves Anna for something besides the obvious. Jaques Dumesnil, playing an elderly surgeon-philosopher, and Patrizia Mangano, Silvana's sister, fill out a competent cast. Written by Nino Rota, the music smooths over some rough spots in the plot and dialogue, effectively supplementing the film's emotional crises...
...Dumesnil hid his share. André Pierre tried changing a note or two. Police were informed of strange serial numbers, arrested both men. Hard-pressed Frenchmen guffawed among themselves when they learned that the bank had known nothing of its loss...