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...mercifully shorter on plot-it may be the first children's film made completely without benefit of villainy. The setting is the tiny island of Chincoteague, off the coast of Virginia. Near by is another island, Assateague, where herds of wild ponies live. Each year the Chincoteague volunteer firemen round up the ponies, swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents (Arthur O'Connell and Anne Seymour), is desperate...
...When the firemen round up The Phantom on Pony-Penning Day, there is a dividend-a beautiful white foal named Misty. Paul and Maureen rush to buy the pair with the $102.40 that they have saved up. But they are too late; The Phantom and Misty have been sold. Sensitive ten-year-olds may be assured that matters right themselves, and that Paul and The Phantom are soon outracing an uppity out-of-town boy on a big brute of a horse named Black Comet. Sensitive parents will be glad to know that the whole thing is handled with skill...
...precautions did not prevent more than 120 major forest fires in California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...boys, on the other hand, were impressed with the NROTC drill, the firemen sliding down a pole, the boat rides, the tour of the CRIMSON, and the Museum. The boys group from the Cambridge Community Center liked "the dinosaurs and stuff like that" and "the man who almost fell off the pole in the fire station...
...last the firemen gave the all clear, but the first train in line had drained its batteries, and again the passengers waited until an engine could drag it away. In all, 80 trains had been delayed or stopped cold, and many of the passengers, suffering immobility for as long as eight hours, did not get home till long past 1 a.m. Clucked one New Canaan (Conn.) housewife who waited at the station for her husband: "Watching those men getting off the train was the closest thing to a death march I have ever seen...