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...obvious feeling of pride and accomplishment." One institution that seems to work is Opportunity II, an alternative school for 170 high school students, some of whom were reading at first-and second-grade levels when they entered. The teachers make special efforts to compensate for parental indifference (which Principal Hal Abercrombie attributes largely to the problem of poverty) and often find themselves acting as surrogate parents. "They cling to you," says Abercrombie of the students. "They wait at the door for you to come to school in the morning. They are so anxious to be around you, they...
Directed by HAL ASHBY Screenplay by ROBERT TOWNE
...listless direction by Ted Post, whose work cannot stand even glancing comparison with Don Siegel's authoritative handling of Dirty Harry. The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy. He is the only one present who seems genuinely interested in What's going...
Other possibilities may yet be turned up by investigators or put forward by the White House, but no innocent ex planation for the erasure itself seems at all likely. The missing words involve a conversation between Nixon and Hal deman on June 20, 1972, just three days after the original Watergate arrests. The tape was among those subpoenaed by Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor whom Nixon fired last October. It was later turned over to Judge Sirica. Cox had drawn the "irresistible inference" that Haldeman had reported to the President that day whatever he knew about the origins...
...victory was led by the epee squad, which won all its afternoon matches. Captain Eugene White joined the "untouchables" as he swept his three bouts without once feeling his opponent's weapon score a touch. White shut out--in order--Jeff Martin, Hal Granger and David Stiles...