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Maybe Director Francis Coppola should not have bragged to everyone that he was making the definitive film of the Viet Nam War with Apocalypse Now [Aug. 27]. Maybe he was his own worst p.r. man. But what he did do was create one helluva tremendous cinema experience that stunned me and many others into silence. The film, like the war, is overpowering, brutal, unrelenting, spectacular. Who cares if Coppola had second thoughts about the ending? Did the war itself end as we Americans planned...
Thinking ahead to next week's Princeton contest as well, Strong said she thinks it will be "one helluva race--and Princeton knows that...
...cloud cover that thwarted satellite observation. Hanoi issued regular self-serving communiques; Peking's announcements were so cryptic as to be meaningless. Said one Hong Kong observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were...
...surest way to expand exports, says he, is to sell more to the developing countries. "The new frontiers, the fastest-growing markets are there. We are in a helluva struggle with the Germans, the Japanese and others for those markets. We desperately need the minerals and the resources of the developing countries. We need to find new forms of enterprise, new methods of operating, some innovative approaches that will answer their needs as well as our needs...
...might see a helluva race," Bill McCurdy, coach of the men' track team, said yesterday. "The Greater Boston team will be very strong but we don't think we're so bad either," he added...