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BRITISH COLUMBIA--"A big, furry foul-smelling creature" emerged from the woods and surprised a group of Canadians about 35 miles east of Vancouver Sunday, and many people in the area are convinced it was "Bigfoot," the legendary apelike creature who supposedly lives in the Pacific Northwest...
...that Julius Erving jumps is to describe Beethoven as a guy who wrote music. Dr. J. ascends. He springs into the air at the foul line, floats down the side of the lane, holding the basketball in his right hand. Still airborne, he swivels, turns his back to the basket, switches the ball to his other hand and cleanly flips a soft, lefthanded hook shot into the net. On the floor, play resumes at a dazed half-speed as opposing players stand in disbelief...
Lost in the shuffle of homers, runs, and strong pitching was the fine defensive game turned in by catcher Rich Trembowicz. Trembowicz "had a whale of a ballgame" according to Park, and his diving catch of a foul pop near the Harvard bat rack in the top of the eighth was the big play in the field for the Crimson yesterday...
Come what might-or May-much of the nation was caught up in the spirit of renewal. When the wet season in Northern California turned up bone dry, about 2,000 San Franciscans, a few dressed in foul-weather gear, staged a modern rain dance in the Hyatt Regency hotel. They foxtrotted to Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, April Showers and Stormy Weather. The dance was not dry; the weather stayed...
Very little-as one horrid event after another has proved in the past two decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play...