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...surface success of this foray into Dixie, there was a bothersome note beneath. The trip was almost too fast. There was not that much of a spontaneous outpouring by the people of Jackson. There were some placards of dissent around the coliseum (HAIL TO THE THIEF. . . A $476,000 ERROR? . . . YOU CAN'T HIDE HERE). And Governor Waller, despite his plea for people to get behind the President and get the country moving, would not suggest Nixon was innocent of the Watergate accusations. "Always errors are made by people trying to do something . . . We live by and believe...
Sturges's movies made most sterile American dreams look silly--or both silly and frightening at the same time. When last summer Central II showed Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (about a fake wartime hero who runs for mayor of a small town), tiny audiences doubled over in laughter for seven nights. But the commercial loss to the theater wasn't even offset by the full-house receipts from King of Hearts next door. "There are very few theaters now that can show a film like that," says Robert St. George '64, manager of Harvard Square, Central, and Brattle...
...they'd miss the essential point. Presidents need not be intellectuals. They should be decent people, and it's on these grounds that Ford has apparently won widespread popularity. In fact, dismayed by the indictments of most of President Nixon's top aides, some trend-setters have been hailing Ford as the best idea since the Model T. "GOP Begins to Rally Around Ford; Growing Crowds Hail New Boldness," said the headline in yesterday's New York Times. Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent was the latest liberal politico to announce that the country would be better off with Ford...
Rumbling down the dark pavement near midnight, four olive drab trucks pulled up to the headquarters gate of Argentina's 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment of Azul, 170 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. A guard routinely challenged the lead truck-and was cut down by a hail of bullets. By the time government troops could counterattack, 60 to 70 "soldiers," all in army fatigues and full battle gear, had stormed into the officers' quarters. They held their position for seven hours, long enough to kill Base Commander Colonel Camilo Gay and his wife. Then they took Lieut. Colonel Jorge...
Homosexual organizations were quick to hail the association's new stance. The National Gay Task Force Saturday praised the declaration...