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...Martin of the mid-seventies--but something's done it. Probably just a silly decision to concentrate on a single plot, making the whole hour and a half seem like one extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by contrast, has a single unified...
...orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe. On the shortest notice, Daly turned to two other orphan agencies, which quickly produced 60 children for the trip. Without clearance from either Saigon or Washington, Daly's planeload took off for Oakland; by week's end most of the children were in their new American homes...
Center Wes Unseld, the shortest and burliest in the league, limps along on bad knees; yet he uses his bulk efficiently and leads the league in rebounds. Forward Mike Riordan is still noted for defensive tactics that befit a bouncer, but he has also developed into a competent shooter. Guard Kevin Porter, at 5 ft. 11 in. a Lilliputian by pro basketball standards, owns the league lead in personal fouls, but is also one of the liveliest players on any court...
That kind of privacy is nothing new for long-distance (the shortest run is 5 km., or 3.1 miles) ski racers in the U.S. For years they have been skiing in the shadow of downhill racers at home and always losing to Norwegians, Finns or Russians in international competition. Indeed, no American has ever finished better than 15th in Olympic races. All that may soon change. In rising numbers and with new seriousness, U.S. cross-country racers are preparing an assault on the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria...
...keep its economy healthy, Japan must receive one fully loaded supertanker every hour of every day. It must also get oil from the Middle East via the shortest route and then provide vast storage facilities for the vital fuel-all without undue environmental risk. Until recently, the Japanese were confident that they could transport and store their oil safely and efficiently. Now two serious oil spills have caused shokku (shock) and raised grave doubts on both counts...