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...knock out the pontoon bridges placed across the Suez Canal by the Egyptians. In the first two days of fighting, 40 Israeli planes were shot down near the canal, most of them by SAM6 batteries. The missile was equally devastating over the Golan Heights, protecting the Syrians from the foil fury of the Israeli air force and exacting a heavy toll of F-4 Phantom and Skyhawkjets...
Watergate has added a distinctly Orwellian tinge to the national atmosphere. With Big Brother not only watching but bugging and burglarizing, it is not hard to imagine a trend toward counterespionage of paranoid proportions. Future offices of public officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops...
...attackman Steve Milliken was the next to foil goalie Bill Cronin, with a high, unscreened bounce shot...
...story is too traditionally Truffaut -- a confrontation of innocence (equated with intellect) and brazen, vulgar ignorance that becomes a gutter sophistication. The ending, with Camille's inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript...
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...