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Hyten challenges the "misconception that everyone in the military is the ultra-conservative, gung-ho, shoot 'em up type." A few are, he says, but many have liberal views...
...cause even more inflation. The program has thus worried both liberals and some conservatives. Charles L. Schultze, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Carter and a new member of the TIME board, voiced the concern of many Democrats. Said he: "The Administration is pursuing a gung-ho, damn-the-torpedoes, full-speed-ahead policy...
...what he didn't count on was the play of a few newcomers. These guys weren't freshmen, so Ford might have been able to predict their contribution to the team. "John Lyons, Richard Berkman, Lance Ayrault, and Leighton Welch gave the program a zing, they were very gung ho. That in itself was a surprise. But I didn't think those four would make the step up and do so well," Ford said. Even off the field it was apparent that they were live wires...
...much cinematic grace, but the artlessness serves the subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...
...least of all the Angels, denies that they have dealt in drugs and illegally owned guns. But is this record of "bad acts" proof of conspiracy? Or does it mean, as the defense maintains, that they are individual criminals so pathetically disorganized as to be an easy mark for gung-ho U.S. attorneys intent on controlling the defiant Hell's Angels to the public's satisfaction...