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...Brando in them (normal ones, I mean)? Anyway, Columbia Pictures is running 20 hours of solid movies today in honor of its 50th anniversary. Absolutely free. And depending upon when you receive this paper, you have a certain amount of time left to skip Greek 2740b this morning and hunker down in the plush, cavernous seats of the Music Hall in Boston for a few hours. You won't have to deal with anything. The marathon started at midnight last night, 10 films, the last six of which are From Here To Eternity, On The Waterfront, Bridge Over The River...
...succeed, St. Clair will have to hang tough, as they say--hunker down, stonewall. Delay. Divert. Deny. It will not be easy, and it will certainly take longer than the "several weeks" he wishfully predicts...
...hydraulic lift system can completely change the tank's posture. From its top height of 87 in., it can hunker down on its tracks 19 in. to become a less inviting target; it can independently move its front, back or either of its sides to maneuver or to level itself on broken terrain. Its crew sits in air-conditioned comfort beneath a perch with 360° vision. It is at least two years from becoming operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical...
Lights Out. The President was supposed to get in shape for his surgery with a restful hunker-down on the L.B.J. Ranch. Instead, he punctuated his ten-day stay there with five press conferences and a ceaseless stream of announcements, the most notable being that he plans to visit Europe and Latin America early in 1967. Back in Washington, he whittled down a stack of paper work. "Look at that desk!" he told Lady Bird and White House Aide Bill Moyers on the eve of the operation. "That's cleaner than it's been in three years...
...people over to the Communists." Lyndon Johnson reacted even more acerbically to General Gavin's proposal: "I'm not going to have our troops return to the coast and let our marines go fishing while the Viet Cong ravage the countryside. I'm not going to hunker up and take it like a mule in a hailstorm...