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...continued Soviet sympathy with "the struggle of the new emerging forces." When it came to promises of a more concrete kind, Mikoyan was a little vague. Apart from massive arms aid, at least $300 million in Soviet development aid credits has vanished without trace in Indonesia's bottomless pit of corruption, inefficiency and poverty. On his current junket, the crafty Armenian could not help seeing that since his last visit to Sukarno-land two years ago, the swarms of scrawny, barefoot children had grown thinner and hungrier and the tens of thousands of beggars blocking the streets and sidewalks...
Niven alone survives disaster by coasting through the film ever so lightly. Early on, before the first fissures appear, he issues a nimble challenge to his costar: "Are you proposing to pit your crude animal instincts against intelligence, culture and breeding?" Unfortunately Brando answers yes, then lumbers on to demonstrate how a potentially great talent can petrify through miscasting and misuse. In one scene he attempts to seduce the mayor's daughter by performing a squalid striptease. Later, posing as a mentally defective prince, he gibbers like a traumatized gorilla and has to be spoon-fed. Then, pretending...
...scene could have been played in Dante's nethermost pit. The sun-or perhaps it was the moon-whirled like a ball of molten lead above a bil lowing grey dust cloud that made any hour seem torrid twilight. An ear-numbing cacophony of whines, snarls, splashes, roars and curses engulfed the 35,000 laborers who went about their tasks...
...javelin will pit Paul Mallas of Navy against Columbia's Len, DeFlore for the championship. Croasdale should cop the hammer throw with Columbia's Bill Brown, Cornell's Gage, and Midshipman Bill Gleeson the top contenders. All have topped...
...Ross o Dell has caught Hewlett on bad days before). If Yale's pole vaulters and javelin men are fairly sure winners there is no Bulldog who can leap with Chris Ohiri, a consistent 23-footer in the broad jump and a threat to go right out of the pit in the hop, step and jump. The close events should be the shot put, where Chuck Merecin and Art Croasdale renew an old rivalry, the discus, where Harvard's Heps champion John Bakkensen and George Levendis are about even, and the high jump, where two amazing sophomores, Harvard's Chris...