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Crispin's Day. Elsewhere, the military action was minimal. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent a token force to aid the Syrians and Jordan's King Hussein sent 7,000 men, but Hussein wisely avoided hostilities along his country's 300-mile border with Israel...
...Fantasia, it is also filtered through Art Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went in the direction of classicism, but it would be shaky to suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms and bubbles of a pond in Arcadia...
Iraqi air and ground military forces joined the war against Israel yesterday, taking an active part in fighting on both fronts, according to the Iraqi military command. Morocco and five other Arab countries are also reported to have sent token forces...
...mainly in London and New York on tight, four-week schedules-were in effect subsidized by the artists. Directors were paid from $15,000 to $30,000 each, plus percentages from the future grosses of their productions. Hepburn and Marvin, who normally command six-figure salaries, worked for a token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles and the chance to permanently record their performances in those roles on film. When Landau approached Marvin to play Hickey in Iceman, Marvin's answer was to quote at length Rickey...
Bail was set at a token $500 for the four former White House aides. As a courtesy, arrest warrants were delayed for a week to give them all time to get to Los Angeles. But they did not need the delay. Krogh surrendered almost immediately, pleaded not guilty and professed "some real regrets over what has taken place in terms of injuring innocent persons." Then came Young, then Ehrlichman, more tanned and thinner than he used to be. He pleaded not guilty and was taken off for fingerprinting and mug shots. Liddy, who is serving a sentence...