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...befits a one-man race, the pace of the official month-long campaigning that began last week for South Viet Nam's presidency was positively glacial. Until a TV appearance at week's end in which he suggested that a no-confidence vote would be a vote against democracy, President Nguyen Van Thieu had not made a single campaign speech. His total campaign effort, it appears, will consist of three TV and three radio broadcasts. Previously planned visits to the countryside were scrubbed for security reasons, but were unnecessary anyway in the absence of any opposition. Saigon, meanwhile...
...Chief Justice of South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, Tran Van Linh, Thieu noted that Ky had refused to run and demanded a ruling on whether there was now one candidate or two. Seven of the nine Justices (two were abroad) met informally in Saigon, and agreed six to one that Ky had in effect withdrawn. Since the law had not provided for a one-man race, Chief Justice Linh gave as his "consultative opinion" that it was up to Thieu to decide on procedures. Thieu took that as authority enough to rule Ky's name...
...dogs. So Vida ran the ball the whole second half; every play we had the ball he ran. We won 13-0." In his final season, Blue passed for 3,484 yds. Averaging 10.3 yds. a carry, he ran for 1,600 yds. more to pile up a total one-man offense...
Yeah Inc. By anybody's adding machine, Van Peebles is a successful man. Sweetback has grossed nearly $10 million. Yeah Inc., the one-man corporation he formed to finance Sweetback, is a busy business: there is the film and the sound-track album. A paperback of the movie is already "making some good bread." T shirts, sweatshirts and nighties announce I AM A SWEETBACK. This fall his play Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens on Broadway. Coming up: Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers...
...glorious, fun filled imitation of picaresque art. He had persuaded his bosses at the State University of New York to spring him for a year at the Esalen Institute. The university was searching for new routes to learning, and as a 29-year-old bachelor, Miller would be its one-man Lewis and Clark Expedition to the encounter-group center in Big Sur, Calif...