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...Buttons is a child's war between the young students of two small French towns, Valeran and Longeverne. They fight in a deserted quarry with sticks and sling shots, yet their exhaustive preparations for battle and ingeniously inventive tactics are uncomfortably familiar to contemporary minds. But lessons for the world are properly understated by director Robert and, instead, he guides his actors at uproarious play. One side attacks with a borrowed old nag (utterly frightening from a child's point of view) and wins that battle in a rout. Later the other side borrows a tractor as the escalation continues...
What he did have was a concealed .22cal. automatic pistol, also unlicensed. Sonny, his arm no longer in a sling, was booked on the concealed-weapon and no-license charges, plus careless, reckless and speedy driving. As an ex-con, he also faces a possible felony rap for carrying a weapon, concealed or not. He shoulda never left that stool...
...Texas' Democratic Governor John Connally wore Western boots, a big felt Stetson, checkered sports shirt, tan twill pants. His right arm, in a cast from the wrist to the elbow, was supported by a black-bandanna sling. "I'll ride with you," the Governor told his visitor. "Turn right and go on down that road. We've got some work to do on these roads, but they aren't as bad as they look...
...orbit that mattered, nor the fact that the 10,200-lb. Centaur was the largest U.S. satellite orbited to date. By proving that hydrogen engines would burn in space, Centaur showed that the U.S. space effort is on a sound propulsive track. The multistage Saturn boosters that will sling U.S. astronauts to the moon will also burn liquid hydrogen in their upper stages...
...smacks and a greeting: "Hi ya, Blub." Silence. Then, slowly, The Blub toppled backwards off his perch. "I don't really remember what happened," confesses Toots. But his right wrist broke the fall, then broke itself. Though plastered into a cast for six weeks (complete with evening scarf sling), Toots stiffly states: "Booze is beautiful-with either hand...