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...June 1, they will increase stand-by fares to $299. But fearless Freddie, unwilling to toy with success, will continue to offer round trips...
...little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package.) Truffaut does not lean heavy on the social commentary, as he did in "The 400 Blows," his first film about growing pains. He's less angry...
...Government pro," says Vice President Walter Mondale. "I don't know of any member of the Cabinet who tries harder to avoid poisonous disputes over minor matters. He doesn't indulge in backbiting, and he won't tolerate adults with graduate degrees behaving like children fighting over a toy." Yet there is steel in Vance's chronically ailing back. (A ruptured disc has bothered him ever since 1966, forcing an operation in 1967 and requiring him to wear a body cast for a time. His back has grown less troublesome, although he eases it at times by relaxing...
...piece of Strangelovian paraphernalia. The editorial stated that the neutron bomb's "modest blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe out 50,000 human beings...
Travolta cannot be immune to this mythmaking process. Like autograph hounds, it comes with the territory, and the quiet kid from Englewood, N.J., is already getting typed as a kind of Steiff Toy hoodlum. This has something to do, of course, with the parts that have brought him fame: Vinnie Barbarino in Kotter, Tony in Saturday Night Fever, even Danny Zuko, the cuddly tough guy in Grease, all rough-and-ready proles with a hint of self-mockery and a double dose of wistfulness. Travolta's low profile will be his best chance of holding onto his privacy and whatever...