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Street Blues; of complications stemming from urethral cancer; in Los Angeles. Conrad, whose career began with stock tough-guy roles, once explained his sudden success as the gentle cop by saying, "I think I can show softness in a male...
...Crimson's 5-1 victory yesterday at the University of New Hampshire left it with a 9-5 overall slate. But the booters fell short of their two goals: an Ivy title and an NCAA tournament berth. Favored to cop the league crown in 1983, Harvard suffered a rash of injuries that left it celebrating only the prospect of a fresh start next year...
...Rise of the Stage Director. All right, if there are no new works, then make old works new through flamboyant reinterpretation. The stage director, once a traffic cop, has become in effect a second librettist. These show doctors have made some startling alterations: Jonathan Miller updated Rigoletto as a '50s Mafia love story; Patrice Chereau set the Ring during the turbulence of the industrial revolution; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle WIDE WORLD played The Flying Dutchman as the phantasmagorical dream of one of its minor characters. Most radical of all is Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen...
...David Ramsey, 25, was shot dead last year while sitting in his car. The cop, who was in plainclothes and an unmarked police van, says Ramsey tried to back into him. Although New York police regulations prohibit firing at moving vehicles, the officer was cleared by a grand jury...
...Please! No!" begged a Negro as a cop flailed away with his club. "My God, we're being killed!" cried another. The Negroes staggered across the bridge and made for the church, chased by the sheriffs deputies and the horsemen. All told, 78 Negroes required hospital treatment for injuries...