Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Jack Crabb is 121 years old. His eyes are agate chips; senility seeps through the cracks in his voice. But Crabb is not your average superannuated former Indian fighter, former Indian, intimate of Wild Bill Hickok and General George Armstrong Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and drunkard. No sir. He is Little Big Man, sole survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He may tell a stretcher or two, but when he reminisces, graduate students listen. A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls...
...into petulant editorial. In the era of occupied Alcatraz, surely it is no news that the white man spoke with forked tongue, that the first Americans were maltreated as the last savages. The Battle of Little Bighorn, which should be the film's climax, is its weakest point. General Custer is pure Pig on the Prairie, babbling insanely as the consummate racist militant. As overplayed by Richard Mulligan, he could be sectioned, labeled Swift's Premium and sold in butcher shops...
...lacocca figured that he was a cinch to take over the president's chair when Arjay Miller stepped down three years ago. But then a gray-haired 55-year-old named Semon E. Knudsen got passed over for his dad's old job as president of General Motors. Henry Ford II snapped up Knudsen for the Ford job and let lacocca wait...
Died. Major General Artem I. Mikoyan, 65, co-designer of the Russian MIG fighter planes and brother of long-time Politburo Member Anastas I. Mikoyan; in Moscow. MIGs take their name from the surnames of Mikoyan and Mikhail I. Gurevich, who in 1940 built the MIG-3, which became the backbone of the Soviet high-altitude fighter force. Their MIG-15 became the Communist mainstay in the Korean War, while the supersonic MIG-21 is presently the first-line fighter for most Communist and many Arab air forces. Over the years, Western airmen have given the MIGs generally high marks...
...Died. General Thomas S. Power, 65, retired Air Force commander who as boss of the Strategic Air Command from 1957 to 1964 provided the nuclear deterrent for three Presidents; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. Power was not a temporizer: he believed that war, once started, could only be halted by crushing force. He led the March 1945 fire-bomb raid on Tokyo that killed 84,000 Japanese, was a planner of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and fashioned the peacetime SAC into the most devastating instrument of destruction ever known...