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...Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...
Dubbed "Lightning and Thunder" by Teammate Bob Watson, Lynn and Rice form one of the most powerful duos in baseball history. "It's gotta be the strongest one-two punch since Maris and Mantle," says Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver. Batting third and fourth in the Red Sox lineup, Lynn, 27, and Rice, 26, have been pounding the ball so hard and often that, astonishingly enough, both have a good shot at winning the Triple Crown (leading the league in hitting, homers and runs-batted-in). Last week Lynn was first in hitting with a .347 average, while Rice...
...shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular, campy Moses (Charlton Heston) is a hell of a lot more fun than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border where Gurdjieff grew up. From there, the young seeker begins a series of exotic adventures: encounters with various eclectic holy men, a trek through...
...only trouble is that the thunder sheets and other off-stage sound effects are so loud throughout that the sixty-odd lines of text are almost wholly unintelligible. It would be wiser to use a much lower decibel setting, with a final crescendo at the actual foundering...
...usually was awakened and taken from a nice warm bed to the cellar. There we sat listening to winds, thunder and hail. When the door was lifted and somebody announced that all was clear, it usually would still be raining. Nobody bothered to carry me back to our house. I had to walk back barefoot in the mud, get a pan and wash the sticky red stuff off my feet. It was hard to wake me up for school the next morning...