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Flying in from Buffalo, N.Y., around noon, the former Georgia governor will attend a private reception at the East Boston Ramada Inn sponsored by the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee...
...Colts belong to the A.F.C.'s Eastern Division, one of the league's strongest, since it includes Miami, Buffalo and New England. In addition, the Colts must play Cincinnati, Dallas and St. Louis, all of whom earned playoff berths last year. A lackluster exhibition season worries Thomas, since the Colts must get off to a good start if they are to survive the first five games of the season. The Colts open with a bout with the New England Patriots next week, followed in quick succession by other tough games with Dallas and Miami. But football...
...director can do with intractable material. Irvin Kershner, who is known for such pocket dramas as The Hoodlum Priest and Loving, is working for the first time on a large scale. With the excellent assistance of Cameraman Owen Roizman (The Exorcist), he brings off some fine set pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing. The Return of a Man Called Horse is no more deeply Indian than the old Boy Scout ceremony...
Shaka also developed a battle tactic based on the shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some...
...belonging to pro scouts. Last year was a bad one for quarterbacks, but Gardner did not know how bad until he waited by his scarlet phone on draft day. The first round-worth at least $100,000 a year to any player -passed. By the eighth pick, when a Buffalo p.r. man called and said unenthusiastically that they were glad to have him, Gardner's excitement was gone...