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...press visits, and lately reporters and camera crews have come in droves past the No Paso (No Trespassing) sign posted outside the 18-month-old Camp Cuba-Nicaragua. The show varies little from week to week: target practice, men running an obstacle course, simulated assaults through mud and underbrush. No automatic weapons or explosives are used; they are illegal. Finally, Bombillo Gonzalez climbs atop a tiny wooden podium and explains what these maneuvers portend for the hated leftist governments of Cuba and Nicaragua...
...song, Wild in the Streets-about those mystery kids-and put out an album called Ghost Writer that was one of the standouts of the '70s. Great things were predicted. Subsequent records were like Hansel's trail of crumbs through the woods, attempts to clear away stylistic underbrush and find the path back...
...bodies were pulled from the cold water of the Chattahoochie River, southwest of Atlanta last week, bringing the city's death toll of black youths to 22 (two others are listed as missing). One victim, Timothy Hill, 13, was found tangled in some riverside underbrush...
ANNOYING AS THESE directorial intrusions may be, at least they are flaws in an interesting film. The news footage, by itself, would make an entertaining documentary Noyce must have sifted through eons of film of find such choice moments--Aussies crawling through the underbrush rooting out Public Enemy #1, the rabbit; the vice-presidential Nixon arriving with Second Lady Pat; flies buzzing around the new Prime Minister and his staff as he decries the Communist menace. The opening sequence, kangaroos excepted, is eerily effective, capturing the strangely fearful confidence of the post-war period...
Dales pushed his tee shot into the woods and had to take an unplayable. His third shot caught an overhanging limb and dropped back down into the underbrush. After raining several more futile blows on the unbudging ball, he choked down on a wedge to bunt it out of a bush and then got up and down for his eight...