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...week's end, after listening carefully to declarations of support from across the Democratic spectrum, O'Brien was on the brink of agreeing to return to the chairmanship provided that no significant opposition arises. If he says yes, it is virtually certain that he will be elected chairman when the Democratic National Committee meets in Washington March 5. O'Brien will have to leave a political-consulting firm he recently founded, following a brief stint as the president of a New York brokerage house, and slow the work on a book on his years with Kennedy...
Harvard, momentarily, seemed to be on the brink of the same mid-game slump that wasted a 4-1 lead at Canton last winter and forced the Crimson into an overtime tie. But at 2:13 of the second period. DeMichele beat Larry goalie Allen Howes on a breakaway to reopen the margin...
...centuries ago, their mercantile genius and drive gave the American colonists the world's highest standard of living. The nation since then has grown complacently accustomed to being the richest on earth. Yet the U.S. has rarely been at ease with its wealth, and even now, on the brink of a trillion-dollar economy, it has not fully reconciled the desire for private affluence, the requirements of international responsibilities, and the tremendous need for social and environmental reforms...
STAIRCASE. There are two good reasons to see this film version of Charles Dyer's play; they are Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Portraying a bickering, desperate homosexual couple on the brink of old age, both men turn in their best screen performances in years...
...Brandt's own daring as much as the actual election results that brought the Socialists to the brink of power. Neither of the two major parties won an outright majority. The long dominant Christian Democrats, who had promised "no experiments," remained the largest par ty, with 15.2 million votes or 46.1% of the total?a 1.5% decline from the last election in 1965. The Socialists, who pledged to "Build the Modern Germany," won 14 million votes, increasing their 1965 percentage by 3.4% and capturing 42.7% of the electorate. Ironically, the party that ended up holding the balance of power...