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Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...
Many of the nearly 15,000 subscribers, who pay $5 per copy, are comedians, writers and broadcasters seeking to enliven their routines or stories. Even the White House has a copy, and staffers sometimes phone Chase to confirm a date. Once White House aides went so far as to track Chase down at his sick father's bedside in Florida to check on the date of a German historical event; they were planning a celebration to honor a visiting dignitary...
...Paper Chase, with Timothy Bottoms, plus two shorts made at the Law School, Friday and Saturday...
Welles becomes a sewer rat; every exit is covered and his seemingly endless ability to scramble in and out of huge blocks of misshapen rubble is exhausted. The underground chase goes on for a little too long--any recent film like Bullitt could give us a more varied and exciting sequence, probably with helicopters and Jensens and a pyrotechnic climax. Major Calloway is a wiser, more upstanding policeman than any (although Ironside may be a close second) but he is part of the irrelevant, whodunit part of the story...
...outcome of Sunday's game' will depend largely on how successfully Pittsburgh can contain Tarkenton. When the Vikings' wily quarterback starts leading pass rushers on a mad chase around the backfield, pass coverage often breaks down. Moreover, if Tarkenton can scramble enough to tire the Steelers' pass rushers, they could become vulnerable to the run. Minnesota also has the advantage of experience; this is their second consecutive Super Bowl and the third in the past six years. They are hungry for their first...