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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Viet Nam, the armed forces have been under pressure to find a way to screen out those likely to commit atrocities. A British study showed that the soldier most likely to commit such acts is the mild-mannered, over-controlled type who goes berserk under heavy pressure. In Viet Nam, atrocities were frequently committed by those second in command, in high-stress jobs such as point...
Grease would be a better movie if Stigwood and Carr had stuck to the basics. They have compiled a fairly impressive group of retread stars to make the era complete; Eve Arden plays Rydell High's Principal McGee, Joan Blondell is Vi, the confidante/waitress type, Edd Byrnes does a good job as Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, and Sid Caesar is a good fascist coach Calhoun. Of course, Sha-Na-Na is there too, as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, and "everyone's favorite '50s group...
Only Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko, 46, had been slated to make a space walk; Romanenko was to remain behind at Salyut's open hatch. Both were wearing a new type of space suit equipped with a radio and an hour's supply of oxygen. Thus when cosmonauts are working outside an orbiting spacecraft, they require no umbilical link to the mother ship other than a simple tether to keep them from drifting off. Everything was going smoothly during Grechko's extraterrestrial stroll until Salyut passed over the western Pacific Ocean-out of range of Soviet ground stations. Suddenly...
...find what you're looking for there, especially if you're academically inclined. A Coop charge account can ease some of your financial burden, especially with the rebate deal they throw in. And you certainly feel as though you are spending less, because the place has a definite supermarket-type atmosphere. A warning, however: it is more than easy to go hog-wild in the Coop, especially with one of those little cards in hand, so be careful...
...REST of the book, then, is the stuff of which B-movies are made: cardboard characters, dirty cops on the make, and lots of healthy, Type-O blood. Even those scenes that could have been meaningful, such as the portrayal of Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the scoop-hungry New York press corps, degenerate into near-slanderous caricatures, with only the Breslin-character retaining his integrity. Funny thing...