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...simpleminded, like symbolizing the Viet Nam War (or any war) by a skirmish in a papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody. Jeff Bridges, as a sensitive son, is decent enough- a triumph under the circumstances-and a newcomer named Season Hubley is something more than that. In the thankless role...
...because "I've hit the ball up against a wall a lot." Quarterback Johnny Unitas confessed that "I haven't held a racket in my hand since high school," then proved it by losing 6-0 to the New York Rangers' right wing Rod Gilbert. "I thought I did pretty well," said Unitas. "At least I didn't fall down...
Bench came back to win at bowling with a puny one-game score of 131, boasting that he was taking it easy on his hapless rivals. "Why, just yesterday," he crowed, "I rolled a 629 in a three-game practice series." Tennis's Rod Laver easily won the table-tennis finals, and Hayes used his long legs to run off with first-place honors in the 100-yd. dash with a tortoise-like clocking of 11.5 seconds. After the first day of competition, though, the leader was Auto Racer Peter Revson. Winner of both the swimming and tennis events...
...England Patriots offered Harvard's Rod Foster a free-agent contract and invited him to a rookie tryout camp this weekend, but the senior running back has not signed with the NFL club...
Phyllis went shopping last week in anticipation of her husband's return. She bought herself a light blue dress to wear for the reunion, bottles of the "best French champagne and perfume" and, for a man who used to play a good game of tennis, a Rod Laver tennis sweater. "I've taken it up since he's been gone, and now I hope we can play together...