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...some of the best dance sequences in Hollywood history are missing. The segment devoted to MGM musicals offers not highlights but footlights; Astaire's nonpareil work with Ginger Rogers is stinted (Pick Yourself Up, but not Never Gonna Dance); Cyd Charisse never gets to wrap her mile-long gams around any mere male; and Rita Hayworth doesn't exist. This is filmed dance with one leg tied behind its back. Still, hobble as it does, That's Dancing! provides young moviegoers with the chance to see old masters playing God's music with their feet...
Secure behind a 750-mile-long desert wall of sand and rock, the armed forces of King Hassan II of Morocco have gained the upper hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full...
...department of transportation dock and eases it slowly, stern-first, out into the basin. Then, his craft clear, Kaldefoss settles himself behind the huge, spoked steering wheel that dominates the Peckinpaugh's pilothouse and steers for the lock leading from the harbor to the Erie Canal, a 338-mile-long liquid highway that runs from Buffalo, on Lake Erie, all the way east to Albany on the Hudson River. "Well," says Kaldefoss in a voice still heavy with the cadences of his native Norway, "here we go again...
...fogs that can blot out the canal's marker buoys and make navigation impossible and lock keepers who bring the Peckinpaugh's crew up to date on the news as they pass through. "Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake and swings north into the Oswego River. "We really get to know each other along here...
After waiting on the Logan Airport tarmac for the President, Shamie joined him in the seemingly mile-long presidential motorcade and hugged so close to him on the podium that he appeared to be protecting Reagan from his own security detail...