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From time to time, the camera breaks away from the center ring to inspect clowns in senescence, brittle little men who recall Falstaff's lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque...
Finally, in hopes of keeping him permanently occupied, the Army assigned Font to inspect the barracks at Ft. Meade. Font inspected barracks from October 23 to January 25, 1971. It was while doing this that Font took three days off in December to participate in the Washington meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Commission of Inquiry with regard to war crimes...
Font has also charged Alexander with "dereliction of duty" for failing to "properly inspect and maintain" barracks at Ft. Meade, and Ciccolella with "assault and battery" committed during the incident at First Army Headquarters...
Such opinions are, of course, purely subjective. Yet when they come from professional basketball scouts, they bear checking out. That, in fact, is exactly what the pro scouts were doing last week when they made their annual visit to Kansas City, Mo., to inspect the 32 teams playing for the championship of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Because the N.A.I.A.'s 558 member schools are classified as "small colleges" their athletes do not command the kind of publicity that is heaped on the big-college stars. Nonetheless, as the number of pro-basketball teams has grown from nine...
...South Vietnam's top field commander, was killed Tuesday in a helicopter crash en route to inspect more than 20,000 Saigon troops on a major offensive in eastern Cambodia...