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...pretty thin joke. There are only so many laughs to the 98-pound weakling dilemma, whether it's set at muscle beach or Martinique. And it is where Allen scrapes the dregs of slapstick gags that he is at his weakest. When Boris Grushenko, "the young coward all St. Pete is talking about," fumbles through basic training like a moldy replay of Modern Times, and bearing a suspicious resemblance to certain scenes of Bananas, the audience barely stifles a few bored groans...
...Much of his week was spent entertaining a cross section of Americans and two old Russian flyers, who brought him a model of the plane they had used in their 1937 polar flight. He also received a few field pointers during a visit by soccer's Brazilian superstar Pete...
...agreed to side with Ford should his vote be needed. On the trip back from West Point, Ford went to work on Air Force One's telephone, going down the list of his opponents and calling member after member, including some Southern Democrats. He called California's Pete McCloskey, Ohio's William Stanton, Tennyson Guyer and Charles Mosher, Illinois' Edward Madigan and Robert McClory, Michigan's Philip Ruppe, Vermont's James Jeffords. They all promised to go with the President. "This means an awful lot to me," Ford told them...
...Senator John Tunney in next year's primary-while his wife Jane Fonda returns to a full movie schedule. David Harris, who served 20 months in a penitentiary for refusing induction into the Army, may run for the seat now held by California's liberal Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey. David Dellinger, another member of the Chicago Seven, has plans for an "alternate" newsmagazine tentatively titled Seven Days. "The movement is fragmented these days," Dellinger says, "but its parts are still working." Maybe, but like any other one-cause force, the peace movement will probably fade away unless...
...comes across as an extraordinarily genuine personality. Unlike the barrage of middle class suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across the country with Woody Guthrie. Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response...