Word: leiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking for slices of life. Still Thunderball is unusually ridiculous, even for its genre. One might have suspended disbelief, perhaps, if its characters seemed to feel as well as act. But the sinister mastermind Largo (Adolfo Celi), his lovely but treacherous "niece" (Claudine Auger), and the slowwited CIA man Leiter (a very inadequate Rick Van Nutter) are never developed beyond the comic-book level, and Bond himself (Sean Connery again) is slick and lifeless, as always...
Boston. . . well, what can you say about the Bruins? Dean Prentice, Bobby Leiter, Forbes Kennedy, Tom Johnson, and goalie Eddie Johnston have all been sidelined for the year with injuries, and Boston didn't have a chance to break its four-year string of last-place finishes...
...draw an analogy. In my days we had a baseball tournament for the Leiter Cup--whether this is still going on I do not know. Teams were organized by various individuals, these teams being made up of players who were not good enough for the varsity squad, and were entered in the tournament. Graduate students were also permitted to take part. I fielded a pretty good nine in the four years I was there, but we were beaten in the semi-finals by the Law School the first two years in very close and exciting games...
...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...