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This movie begins with a sure sign oi trouble to follow: a montage of stills showing cute kids, each representing an ethnic minority, all of them pretty and smiling and irritatingly adorable. Having established this trough at the very outset, Writer-Director Melville Shavelson is free to proceed downward...
...Yardlings led by eight at the half, and widened the margin at the outset of the final period in their quest to avenge last year's defeat by Worcester...
...seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year P.O.W., battled Democrat Larry McDonald...
...with Palestinian terrorists was shaken two weeks ago by a White House miscue: President Ford appeared to hint that as a result of the Rabat summit Israel might have to deal with King Hussein and the P.L.O. Arriving in Jerusalem last week, Kissinger had to reassure Rabin at the outset of their talks that the U.S. still considered it possible to discuss the future of the West Bank with Hussein. The Secretary also told the Israelis that in his view the Arabs, despite the summit, had left themselves an encouraging amount of room for continued negotiations. Any progress toward peace...
Radcliffe had entered the contest with a record of nine losses and a tie, but yesterday the stickwomen dominated the game from the outset, outshooting Pine Manor by a healthy margin...