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Former Air Force Major Hal M. Knight had served as an operations officer at a radar-guidance station in Bien Hoa, South Viet Nam, in 1970. He told the committee that he and others had doctored reports to make it appear that the Cambodian missions had been flown against targets in South Viet Nam. True reports on the Strategic Air Command bombing runs out of Guam or Thailand -as many as 407 in one month-were routed directly to President Nixon, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and a small handful of top officials, bypassing the normally classified Pentagon record-keeping...
Almost every race horse carries into each race the hopes and dreams of an ephemeral fan club: the men and women who placed bets on him just moments before. But Knight Counter, a highly successful five-year-old, has a permanent cheering squad-the 12,000 depositors of the defunct Prudential Building & Loan Association in Louisville...
...local judge ruled last month that Robert Huffman, a former auditor of the bankrupt association, could pay off the $28,555.65 he owed with the winnings of Knight Counter, his most visible asset. After the ruling went into effect, Knight Counter won two second-place purses at Liberty Bell in Philadelphia in June for a total of $7,765. According to the agreement, 40% of the money is being held in escrow for the 12,000 depositors. The horse has $64,000 to go to clear his owner's account -about as much as he won in the first...
Some of the depositors are understandably impatient. One complained recently to Arthur Brown, the association's receiver, that the horse should run every week. But that is the surest way to turn Knight Counter into Bad Debts. Rejoined Brown: "We might kill the horse if we did that...
There are, however, somewhat discomforting jabs at allegory and significance. Marvin is the soiled knight striving after honor, Borgnine the dark primitive force he must conquer. Aldrich's idea of making his stereotypes into mythic archetypes is to pump them up with hot air. When Borgnine and Marvin finally lock in combat they seem less likely to wreak havoc than to simply deflate each other...