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...NIGHT OF WATCHING by Elliot Arnold. 441 pages. Scribner...
Redeeming Facts. Unfortunately, Elliot Arnold, a sometime screen writer (Flight from Ashiya, Broken Arrow), comes close to tarnishing a gallant tale by treating it with shabby slickness. He lays out staccato scenes in simplistic scenarist terms and somehow manages to include every cliche possible-plus a few that are highly improbable...
With luck, The Happening might have happened to be a passable picture. But Director Elliot Silverstein, forgetting everything he learned on Cat Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...
Haggerty lost a heartbreaker in the 440 hurdles. After smashing a hurdle on the backstretch, he regained the lead but lost it in the final two yards to Cornell's John Elliot. Both were timed...
Legalized wire-tapping is necessary for Massachusetts to cut down its rate of organized crime, Elliot L. Richardson '41, state attorney-general, said last night...