Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIGUEL. Growing up on a sheep ranch in New Mexico proves eventful for the ten-year-old hero (Pat Cardi) of a sturdy adventure film by the makers of such children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins...
...likes to recall that he began his movie career 29 years ago as "the nice guy who didn't get the girl." Last week he walked off with some thing better: an astonishingly large victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Democrats, by contrast, gave Governor Pat Brown his third-term nomination by a sufficiently meager margin to establish Reagan as an attractive even-money bet in November's general election...
...adventuresome but much-attacked Delta Ministry, the National Council of Churches' two-year-old experimental instrument of reconciliation between Mississippi's white and Negro people, got a pat on the back and a rap on the knuckles last week from its sponsor. Faced with growing criticism of the project, the council's general board strongly endorsed the Ministry's aims and plans but ordered a study on reorganizing it-in effect conceding that this venture in Christian activism had by no means achieved its goals...
...sere, stunning high-plateau country of New Mexico, the movie describes an unhurried but sometimes harrowing year in the life of the ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up. Manly ambition has begun to stir in the boy's child body, and he aches to join the men of his family. Sheepherders for many generations, they spend every summer with their flocks in the green grazing lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full...
Surely the most interesting bernatorial race is California's. As this is written, the primaries have not been held, and the final nominees are not yet known. But if the race turns out to be between Governor Pat Brown and actor Ronald Reagan, then Vietnam will certainly creep into the expected discussions of the state budget, water policy, Berkeley, and Watts, Reagan, despite his public relations firm's efforts, is more a right-winger than a moderate in most voters' eyes. He takes a hard line on Vietnam, and his election as Governor would be the biggest hawk victory...