Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point. With his military support, Castello Branco never had to worry about such gripes from the voters; newly elected President Artur da Costa e Silva is not so lucky. He is now painstakingly studying the economy. When he takes over in March, his common sense may well want to follow the current course, but his political sense might overrule...
...Follow Me, Boys! Walt Disney, who sometimes likes to represent America as a giant niceberg floating in an ocean of nostalgia, has now represented the model American male as a simpering scoutmaster...
...because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh from Disney's patented freckle dip, who act as if they would follow Fred into the jaws of heck...
...town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds. All this, says the hero, is "the happiest life a man could have." Maybe so, but Follow Me, Boys! will not persuade many men to follow Fred into scouting. It is more likely to restore public faith in juvenile delinquency...
...only way to do that is to eliminate Pele (pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared panther, and the focus shifts to Eusebio, the green-skinned, inscrutable Portuguese superstar...