Word: pattonism
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...operate in both desert and mountains. It mates the low silhouette and turret design of the Russian T-54 (Israel captured nearly 400 of them in the Six-Day War) with the periscope, stabilizers and range finders of the British Centurion and the transmission and engine of the U.S. Patton tank. Another Israeli tank is part Patton and part Centurion. Some Israelis jokingly call the result of this mix a Panturion...
...strange box office. A few years ago, the new wave in show biz was the anti-Establishment rock musical Hair and its tribe of imitators. Now comes the hyper-American backlash. George M! was a smash on the road and appeared again as an NBC-TV adaptation. The film Patton has grossed $9,000,000 in nine months. Last week the latest and most patriotic show yet, a musical revue titled So Proudly We Hail, was playing at-of all places -the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip...
...that said "Liberate Czechoslovakia" and buttons that said "Up Against the Wall, Commies"; pamphlets about "The Fascist threat to America"; "Youth in Politics" and "Voluntary Military" kits in large brown envelopes; and posters of Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, and George C. Scott in his role as Patton...
...charges for 15 years and says that he can now spot the delinquent by his handwriting. De Sainte Colombe is widely known among West Coast behavioral scientists, some of whom are impressed by his pen-and-pencil therapy. Tested at a number of institutions, among them California's Patton State Hospital and the Santa Clara Mental Health Center, his treatment has produced what Psychologist George Melzer calls "astonishing results." Says Dr. John Langdell, a psychiatrist at San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute: "I'm a little skeptical about the claims he makes for graphotherapy...
...martial epic Patton so stirs Richard Nixon that he has seen the film at least twice. But the star, George C. Scott, may not be entirely the President's favorite actor any more. Scott, who voted for Nixon in 1968, has defected. He has joined the Democratic Party's Committee on Congressional Leadership for the Future, promising the group's head, Sargent Shriver, that he will be available as a spsaker and fund raiser for Democratic candidates in this fall's congressional campaigns. The word of Scott's apostasy went around in Washington, and almost...