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Without pausing to change sticks, Mi-kita continued playing and to his sur prise found that he could rip off a shot faster and harder with his crooked cud gel. Soon he and Teammate Bobby Hull were warping the wooden blades of their sticks into scooplike curves by soaking them in hot water and wedging them under door jambs overnight...
...would work harder or support our mission better than himself. His enthusiasm was over powering. He had something special to give, but I couldn't immediately determine what it was. In about three months, my engineering officer recommended that the third shift be terminated - much to my sur prise. His explanation was that the young Lieut. Nixon had been so successful in performing, not through technical competence but through the sheer weight of enthusiastic leadership, that the night shift produced so well that they were even performing checks scheduled for the day shift...
...obscure the fact that what was there at 22-when they began-is still there four years later, and in widening dimensions. The latest to discover this are those who have heard S. & G. sing the sound-track themes from Mike Nichols' The Graduate. To their sur prise, they have found that rock can be enjoyed without the fever required to fly with the Jefferson Airplane, slam with the Doors, or whip with the Cream...
...choice was a Johnsonian sur prise in the best tradition. In the Washington rumor mill, Clifford's name was considered among the least likely of a short list headed by ex-Deputy Defense Secretary and Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze. His quietude and age militated against him for a job that-next to the presidency-is the crudest and most demanding job in Government...
Following New York Times procedure, the following selection includes only those film's released commercially in the Unites States during 1967. This excludes films shown only at the New York Film festival, notably Rosselini's La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV, and films made in 1967 but not yet shown here (Bunuels' Belle de Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also...