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...Wisconsin campaign was a furious montage of political styles. With mod glasses and carefully darkened hair, 61-year-old Humphrey bounced through 19-hour days. "We can sleep next year," he told his workers. Everywhere, except among college students, he found deep affection, but the warmth did not always convert to votes. At times, his campaign savored of last hurrah. In Milwaukee, a woman wearing a McGovern button told H.H.H.: "We love you." "But you're voting for McGovern," replied Humphrey. Said the woman: "Yes, but we love Hubert Humphrey...
...South Vietnamese relief force defending the embattled town of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, broke into a wild four-mile retreat under furious enemy rocket fire yesterday, a Vietnamese officer caught in the battle said...
There is a lot of furious movement throughout the film, but no real zest or fun. Since O'Neal's character is in volved with a noodle-headed research project about the musical qualities of stones, there are more jokes than any one would care to hear along the lines of "Get your hands off my rocks...
Plus, last year in an ambush, Frelimo killed two South African engineers and captured a vehicle containing maps, charts, diagrams and equipment to be used on Cabora Bassa. The South Africans were furious. The South African engineering company withdrew its engineers and said "The Portuguese are incapable of protecting us." They requested and received more South African troops at Cabora Bassa to supplement the Portuguese garrison. And right now, today, Frelimo is within twenty miles of the construction site, and soon they will be able to begin shelling the dam. And then the Portuguese will send in more troops...
...right. Jean de Berry once gave a hound a life pension, but he taxed his subjects so fiercely that they rioted. Worse, from the aspect of practical politics, he chose the wrong faction in the struggles for the French throne, so his house in Paris was sacked by a furious mob in 1411, and one of his châteaux, stuffed with works of art, was burned...