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...interior, a rear area, is now within the battle zone." Concern filters down to officers at sea with the fleet. "There is no feeling now of being on a second team," says Captain John E. Hansen, skipper of the 62,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. Says Commander Richard Hopper, who heads the Roosevelt's 75-plane air group: "This used to be a sunshine cruise. Pilots volunteered from here for Viet Nam. Now the action is here...
...Chilean-Russian stage director named Alexandro Jodorowsky, El Topo has not been shown at all outside Manhattan; reviews, aside from the underground press, have been few and mostly negative. Nonetheless, the film has been kept alive by word of mouth spread by a burgeoning band of fierce partisans. Dennis Hopper had it screened at his home in Taos, N. Mex., and quickly promised to star in Jodorowsky's next movie, which will be financed by Universal...
...splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...
Eight health-care bills have already been submitted to Congress; others may also be thrown into the hopper as debate continues through the summer. The bills cover a broad spectrum of approaches and benefits. The A.M.A.'s "Medicredit" plan and a bill sponsored by the health-insurance industry seek to expand insurance protection by allowing tax benefits for premium payments. Senator Jacob Javits' proposal would gradually expand Medicare to cover the entire population. The American Hospital Association's "Ameri-plan," which has not yet been introduced in Congress, aims to create with federal assistance some 400 "healthcare...
There is the obligatory Love Story put-down, complete with stale jokes, and the author's defensive bid for us to accept him as a hip sophisticate. ( His stories, he quickly points out, are Humphrey Bogart and Dennis Hopper... whoopee-do!). There's a biography of Nathan Pusey, which explains the "bitter man" as an evangelical rationalist; it is followed by a rogue's gallery of Pusey's administrators that includes some very outdated photographs and uncritical thumbnail biographies (MacGeorge Bundy's "academic speciality was American foreign policy," we are told...