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Next came a riverboat foray in the Mekong Delta ("We took some sniper fire"). After that, Owen got his chance to go out with the 1st Infantry in the "boonies" near Lai Khe. Save for Providence Journal stitched over his left shirt pocket, he was garbed-and armed -like every other foot slogger in the detachment...
...They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan just cuddles up to his monkey." Murray, who plays a riverboat captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie I've got to act with a lion...
...Grabbed." The first was the selection of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's vice-presidential running mate in the 1960 election. Schlesinger reports that Kennedy had previously viewed Johnson "with mingled admiration and despair," referred to the Texan as the "riverboat gambler." But, declares Schlesinger, on the night he was nominated Kennedy decided to make the "first offer" of the vice-presidency to Johnson as a gesture aimed at reuniting the Democrats. Because of the bitterness of the Kennedy-Johnson fight for the nomination and Johnson's power as Senate majority leader, writes Schlesinger, Kennedy "was certain that there...
According to campus legend, the founders of Clarke arrived at Dubuque by riverboat in 1843 bringing a grand piano with them. The creative arts have played a central role at the college ever since. The girls are bored with traditional music, preferring to hear concerts by Jazzman Dave Brubeck, or to put on their own performances of Virgil Thomson's Medea or Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. Bold, colorful abstract painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaics by students and faculty are everywhere on campus, reflecting Demers' concept that art "is the flesh of every aspect of life...
...headed by Deputy Premier Gogu Radulescu hit the Innocenti metallurgical factory in Milan and the Fiat auto plant in Turin in connection with a recently signed Rome-Bucharest trade agreement. Earlier an other Deputy Premier, Gheorghe Apostol, floated down the Danube enjoying the hospitality of Austria aboard a vintage riverboat replete with wine and willfulness. "Rumania won her in dependence in 1867," Apostol argued, "and will follow a policy of furthering her own interests. By 1970, Rumania will be a land of industry that must be reckoned with internationally...