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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fundraising committee also includes William T. Coleman, Jr., former Secretary of Transportation, Walter J. Leonard, former special assistant to President Bok, John U. Munro, former dean of the college and Lois Dickson Rice, vice president of the College Entrance Examination Board...
...Kurt J. Isselbacher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, was one of five scientists who testified that the benefits of using saccharin are great for obese or diabetic people, vastly outweighing the "remote" risk of cancer involved...
...college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were largely responsible for instituting the anti-dunk rule...
Directed by FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER
...story. At times this is all to the good: Petitclerc shears away reams of embarrassingly arch, blustery episodes and mannered barroom colloquies. Too often, though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when it tries to be poetic, as when Hudson muses that the sea "has great beauty...