Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saving Usefulness. In Peking, Communist officials say casually: "We can take Hong Kong any time. But for the moment we do not think it necessary." Why not? The colony is not only unashamedly capitalistic; it is also an escape hatch for thousands fleeing Red oppression on the mainland. Entire fleets of fishing junks have arrived at Hong Kong with their crews and families. Some desperate men have swum to safety; others escape by being packed like sardines under the floorboards of coastal ships...
...glossy production (Pandro S. Berman), slick direction (Daniel Mann), solid but stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular. Ha-ha!" Haha...
After both teams bumbled through the first quarter, Crimson halfback Hank Hatch opened the second period with a hang by taking a Ray Barry punt on his own 49 and going 51 yards for a touchdown. Making a difficult catch into the sun, Hatch fooled the charging Brown tacklers by taking the ball on a dead run. Once past the first Bruin wave, he headed for the sideline and followed his interference beautifully. Hoble Armstrong hit over tackle for the two points...
Brown was stalled on three plays, and Barry punted from his own 28. Hatch acted as though he were going to catch the ball, until the last split second, when he nobly deferred to his cohort, Armstrong, Needless to say, Armstrong was somewhat taken aback, and the ball bounced between the two men. Hatch gave chase, and succeeded in touching the ball, after which Jim Thompson recovered for Brown on the Harvard...
...took the varsity just nine plays to get back its lead. Terry Bartolet fooled everybody by calling a pass with third and one on the Brown 33, and hit end Bob Boyda with a beautiful throw for six points a minute and a half before intermission. Hatch failed on the try for two points...