Word: scant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...
...girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies, and an increasing number of newspapers do not advertise them. Kubrick, who selected the footage to be excised, believes that the change will have scant effect on his chilling exercise in "psychedelic fascism." But the incident points up the damaging practice of lumping artistically valid films with sewer-level skin flicks under the X rating. The decision to yield in this case may encourage the trend...
Celluloid. The bulky party platform, composed at the White House and supporting the President on every imaginable issue, is accepted with scant protest. California Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, who may have one elected delegate at the convention, wanted to be put in nomination for President to air his antiwar views, but television time is too valuable for that. The Rules Committee last week hastily approved a proposal that no one can be nominated unless he is supported by a majority of delegates in three states. "Open-door party!" snorts McCloskey. "It's like putting five padlocks...
...take a last-minute sounding. He returned to Miami Beach to tell McGovern: "Ted's not going to do it." McGovern was unconvinced. He told Feldman: "When I get the nomination, he'll be willing." After Ted Kennedy turned him down for the last time, McGovern had scant time left for another selection...
Died. RaÚl Leoni, 67, former President of Venezuela; of cancer; in Manhattan. Having survived political imprisonment and exile as a foe of military dictatorships, Leoni won the presidency in 1963 and served for five uneasy years. His Democratic Action Party lost the next election by a scant 33,000 votes, but Leoni broke with his country's tradition of political violence by welcoming his successor, Rafael Caldera, into office. "Civilization," Leoni declared, "has triumphed...