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...impossible to avoid. All you "campsters" out there might be getting a bit excited. But hold onto your tunics, boys and girls. The movie is not self-conscious enough to know itself as "camp," nor unself-conscious enough to be a pleasant "camp" experience for the wily viewer. Tant pis...
FIREARMS. In the Hearst-Yoshimura apartment police found two M-1 carbines, a sawed-off shot gun, a Browning 9-mm. pis tol and two .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolvers. The Harris apartment contained an even bigger arsenal: five .38-cal. revolvers, three M1s, three 12-gauge shotguns, two 9-mm. pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition...
...honor. More than 1,000,000 copies of books about De Gaulle, including Andre Malraux's Fallen Oaks, have been sold. A spectacular called La France de Charles de Gaulle is now being filmed, and an organization has collected his uniforms, watch, pen, cane, képis, infantry saber, manuscripts, speeches and photographs for exhibit. A National Memorial Committee is building a $ 1,000,000, 134-foot-high marble cross of Lorraine at Colombey that will be visible for 20 miles...
Most Ivy League tennis players start leaning how to play tennis at the age of six, coached by their country-club pis and pushed by their mothers. They (??)y constantly, they play with the best (??)uipment, and they play the best competition...
...linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle tracks around a supposedly downed bridge. "It's all a battle of wits between us and Ho's people," says...