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...Pentagon, meanwhile, professed not to be taking the fuss too seriously. Much of the outcry, a spokesman declared, was intended for domestic political reasons. Many of the countries that have criticized the project, he added, privately hoped that the U.S. would proceed as planned in order to counter Soviet influence. Whether Congress will buy that argument at appropriations time remains to be seen...
Aaron, who is more concerned about getting his 40-year-old muscles in shape than tangling with Kuhn, replied: "If the commissioner orders me to play, I guess I'll have to play." As for all the fuss about two home runs, Aaron admitted that "breaking the record is going to be an anticlimax. People have made too much of this. If I stay healthy this year, I hope I can hit 40 more...
...much for members of the Seminole Health Club, a nudist colony in Davie, Fla. "We can't understand what the fuss is all about," said one. "Why don't they go nude all the time?" In protest, the members staged a "Gnikaerts" ("streaking" spelled backward) and raced round town fully clothed...
...candidate, including the party leaders, is limited to spending $2,358). It will also be the first to be waged in the midst of a nationwide coal strike and a three-day work week. Yet the crowds have been polite and the campaigning has proceeded with a minimum of fuss. Both men motored without fanfare to their constituencies (Heath to Sidcup, a London suburb; Wilson to Huyton in Lancashire), speaking, shaking hands, and signing autographs with scarcely any security detail in evidence...
...BEEN A year since the big stir over Last Tango in Paris. This year the commotion is over The Exorcist, and it's a more honest fuss over a less honest movie. People see The Exorcist because they want to be scared. They want to feel the emotion of the movie, and they say so. But people who saw Last Tango in Paris hid behind critical pretension. Not many people would admit they wanted to see the movie to feel the sex, the passion and the hate it contained. The audience, like the critics, thought its role was to decide...