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...nation's second longest winning streak came to an end when Tufts--that's right, Tufts--succumbed to Trinity College of Connecticut, 16-14, on a 34-yd. field goal with 12 seconds left. Jumbo coach Vic Gatto--a Crimson hero of the famous 1969 29-29 Harvard-Yale tie--was frustrated in his bid to establish a school record of 13 straight wins...
...Jimmy Carter's excursions have been like a physical tonic. Once he got on the road he looked better, talked better and seemed to have more energy. Since childhood, he has been an evangel of one kind or another, and now he is taking his sermons down the longest sawdust trail man has ever devised. He came back from one trip so fired up that he had to phone Strauss late at night and twit him about being on vacation "while I've been out working...
EXCEPT FOR ITS ending, there are no weak links in The Big Red One, but three sequences stand out. Fuller's dramatization of the attack at Omaha Beach on D-Day begins as a personal affair. Unlike the 1962 epic The Longest Day, which featured a fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live...
...several events, among them a "surf festival" in Orange County, Calif., 4-H Club bicycle treks along the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin, and a sand castle-building contest between Alliance activists and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Bethany Beach, Del. The engineers' castle lasted longest, but all the entries, naturally, crumbled eventually -symbolic evidence of the folly of building on dunes and beaches. It was good fun, but it also helped draw attention to the overdevelopment, worsening pollution and mismanagement of resources, which are combining to foul the coasts...
EXCEPT FOR ITS ending, there are no weak links in The Big Red One, but three sequences stand out. Fuller's dramatization of the attack at Omaha Beach on D-Day begins as a personal affair. Unlike the 1962 epic The Longest Day, which featured a fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live...