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Proudly trying out his new 60-ft. yacht Toh-Be-Kin at the entrance to the harbor at Newport Beach, Calif., Senator Barry Goldwater, 64, heard a woman's screams from the water. Maneuvering his boat toward a couple who had been thrown from their small speedboat, the Senator tried to reach them by tossing them a rope. Failing, he dived into the water fully clothed and rescued Mr. and Mrs. Glen Machlitt of North Hollywood. Goldwater pulled the Machlitts into his boat, in shock but still conscious, and turned them over to the harbor police, departing without waiting...
...giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever is rare and surprisingly inept. The vehicular chases that have proved commercially successful in other films are here rendered five times, which is four more than any movie needs. Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable-leaving the mind free to wander into the question of its overall taste. Or lack of it. *Richard Schickel
...Starting four years ago, he began taking hundreds of pictures of his neighbors and listening to them sound off about their comfortable world. Nearly everyone seems high on protein and possessions. "We enjoy having these things," says one man who is seated in a garage containing one car, one speedboat and two motorcycles. Another good credit risk boasts of seven cars and two motorcycles in his family. Things share equal billing with people in these photographs. Things also seem to be equally demanding. "I bought the Doughboy pool for David and the kids, and now no one wants to take...
...York's Yonkers Raceway for four more starts. Then, still wearing his red, white and blue silks, he boarded a helicopter waiting on the track's infield, shuttled to the Teterboro, N.J., airport, transferred to a chartered jet, flew to the Toronto Island Airport, took a speedboat to the mainland, jumped into a police car and arrived at Greenwood Raceway just in time to take another turn around the track. His record for the day: three wins, two places and three shows in ten starts...
...while, the Vance's crew was prepared to suffer these and other bellicose crotchets. They even volunteered to man his most cinematic creation, an outboard speedboat, bought with $950 taken from the crew's recreation fund and paraded near shore flaunting a huge American flag. In Arnheiter's tactical imagination, Old Glory would draw enraged Viet Cong fire and thus reveal the lurking enemy to the punishing guns of the audacious Vance. What really got Arnheiter into trouble, though, was raising Queegsotic Caine over loose shirttails and dirty dungarees. Worse than that, the captain forced everyone...