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...handy word regularly inserted in the second sentence of news reports after the race driver wins his race or loses it or qualifies for it in record time. "The day was marred . . ." Not ruined completely, just slightly marred, as our small pleasures are forever being slightly marred. Gordon Smiley was slightly marred at Indianapolis two weekends ago, just as Gilles Villeneuve had been in Belgium the week before that. They are dead, of course...
...think Gordon wanted was a piece of the action," said Driver Bill Alsup at Smiley's funeral. "Gordon didn't know anything but 'fast,' " said Derek Mower, Smiley's crew chief. "If you hit wrong, I don't care if you're in a Sherman tank," said A.J. Foyt. "It's all over." Then Dennis Firestone, Smiley's close friend, dried his tears and went out and qualified for this Sunday's race. "I know Gordon would have wanted me to," he said...
That which does not kill us makes us I stronger." When a movie begins with G. Gordon Liddy's favorite quotation from Nietzsche, the suspicion arises that somebody may be taking the enterprise a trifle too seriously. That's especially so when we know the title character is not borrowed from anyone's list of the great books, but from Weird Tales, a pulp magazine of the 1930s, and owes his continued life to comic books and paperback originals. Nostalgia for creatures from the black lagoon of adolescent fantasy, even a certain wry affection, is permissible...
...Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with the E. Howard Hunts and G. Gordon Liddys. But if U.S. involvement in the Guatemalan coup constitutes the beginning of a trend, more turmoil lies ahead...
...pride themselves on being able to show events as they are happening anywhere on the globe, found themselves picturing Margaret Thatcher walking in and out of No. 10 Downing Street-again and again-though some good still shots eventually began to surface. Says CBS Evening News Executive Producer Van Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were heard on TV describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield...