Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brown is a pragmatist suspicious of prevailing views. Says an old friend, Rand Corp. Economist Charles Wolf: "If exposed to hard-line views, he is likely to take softer ones, and if exposed to soft-line views he is likely to take harder ones." Says Teller: "Harold is a realistic, nondoctrinaire person...
...would be difficult to turn a story about a boy and his pet hawk into a movie that was anything other than clean. But when Baker's Hawk began running last week at 350 U.S. moviehouses, it was evident that cab driver-turned-movie mogul Lyman Dayton had taken no chances. Hawk contains no sex, no profanity beyond "damn" and "hell," no bloodshed and only a suggestion of lawlessness (a band of vigilantes reacts to a crime wave that the audience never sees). Burl Ives, who teaches the boy (Lee Montgomery) how to train his bird, helps the movie...
...surprisingly, Hawk flew to a G rating, which is just what Dayton had intended. To him, the G does not stand for general audiences (as the Motion Picture Association of America says it does in its rating system), it stands for gold. Dayton, who also broke in as a director on the movie, expects to gross $20 million from Hawk and recover its $1.2 million production cost in about a month...
Dayton knows where his audiences are: in the small towns and cities of heartland America. Baker's Hawk did not open in New York City last week, nor in Chicago, San Francisco or Boston. Instead it premiered in such places as Salt Lake City, Savannah, Boise and Topeka. Says Dayton: "Major cities just aren't where our audiences...
Carter's first choice had been the remote but brilliant Schlesinger. In reporting to Carter on his private trip to China last fall, Schlesinger impressed the Georgian with his expertise and intellectuality. Although Schlesinger is widely seen as a hard-line hawk, Carter found they were in surprising agreement on many defense matters. Schlesinger supports Carter's call for a phased U.S. withdrawal from Korea, for example, and now agrees that $5 billion to $7 billion of waste can be cut from the Pentagon budget after...