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...have to be a fan clubber to love Elliott Gould, but it helps when, as in Move, his talent is swaddled in mediocrity. Laboring under Stuart Rosenberg's incomprehensible direction, Gould strives to leaven a sodden lump of a movie. His role is that contemporary stereotype, the creative Manhattanite who thinks himself into a granny knot. However fascinating Gould's mumblings and stumblings may be, they are scarcely enough to sustain 90 minutes of pointless celluloid...
...city dweller, chewing tobacco is that atavistic lump in a baseball player's cheek. In Raleigh, Miss. (pop. 614), site of the National Tobacco Spitting Contest, it is sport and sociology, an art actively practiced and boasted about. Champions are finally selected, as they should be, in a tournament that feeds the folklore for another year. TIME Correspondent Peter Range joined the aficionados for the 16th annual national spit-off and sent this report...
Organizational Nightmare. Covering every phase of Defense Department operations, the panel found the Pentagon an organizational nightmare in which conflicting loyalties, vaguely defined responsibilities and excessive centralization of authority hamper civilian control and prevent efficient operation. "It's just an amorphous lump with nobody in charge of anything," said Fitzhugh at a news conference. "There is nobody you can point your finger at if anything goes wrong, and there is nobody you can pin a medal on if it goes right, because everything is everybody's business. What is everybody's business is nobody's business...
...very least, "I Am You" will put a lump in your throat; if you've been in love and aren't now, it'll tear you up. Thus it's a good thing that the next cut is the joyously idiotic "Frankford El," an energetic country tune with inane lyrics. "Raspberries," which finishes the album, sounds at first like a lot of wasted energy, but proves, when you're used to it, to be quite interesting...
...done nothing to soothe their nerves. Last week the Government reported that industrial production in April slid for the eighth time in nine months. Personal income in April would have dropped for the first time in more than four years if the Government had not shelled out unusual lump-sum payments to Social Security recipients and federal workers. The payments were necessary to make a 15% Social Security rise and 6% federal pay boost retroactive to the first of the year. Real gross national product fell at an annual rate of 3% in the first quarter, not 1.6% as first...