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...tactics included a formidable strike force of top brass led by Admirals Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations, and Hyman Rickover, retired naval nuclear-power expert, who met personally with almost every Senator on one item or another up for grabs. New Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger did his part with Congressmen. Using charts, he noted that the outlay requested for fiscal 1974 was the lowest percentage of the gross national product since the end of the Korean War, plummeting from 12% to 5.9%. Expressed in constant 1958 dollars, Pentagon spending has dropped (see chart...
...work home with him." "Hi, Mrs. Blume," said the work, sulking against the bedroom door, and Nina walked out. There was a quick, acrimonious divorce. Blume reveled briefly in the freedoms of bachelorhood, but turned possessive and desperate when Nina started keeping company with an itinerant musician named Elmo (Kris Kristofferson). Blume, of course, did everything he could to bust them up and reinstate himself...
George Segal's Blume is a dexterous performance driven by demons, Kristofferson's Elmo relaxed and appealing. Besides a great deal of what seems like effortless ability, Kristofferson has vast charm and the sort of presence that makes you look forward to his every appearance. He is, naturally and winningly, what so many others strain so hard to be: a star. Susan Anspach, as Nina, is musky and alluring and, even more important, a splendid actress. Hers is the most carefully detailed, most complex and moving re-creation of a woman that has been seen in an American...
Steven Zygerberger (Sam MacGintis) has already drawn up plans to foil Tunlop's dastardly decision. Together with Howard Zinn (Sam MacGintis) and Elmo Zumwalt (Sam MacGintis), Zygerberger hypnotizes all Bostonians whose names begin with letters A through D. After inducing amnesia, he threatens to rename them at random unless Arnold and Michael Applethrope (John Tunlop) promise to leave the country. Tunlop, as Arnold, suggests binding arbitration...
Kissing is nothing new to the Navy, explained Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations. He told the American Bar Association convention that after he was photographed kissing an admiral-Alene Duerk, the first woman to reach that rank-he received a mock critical letter from a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Zumwalt's reply: "You should have recalled that nobody reaches the place I'm at without kissing a lot of admirals...