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...When a dubious pass interference call was charged to an aggressive Cabot-North defender in yesterday's house football championship, one of the 70-odd fans screamed to the officials, "Let 'em play the game...
...slapstick movements aren't the only inexplicable sight gags. The matter of a male (Alexander Roe) in the female role of Mrs. Mallarkey is more than just sexually dubious. It doesn't detract from the production, but it doesn't seem to add anything either. We've all seen this trick too many times at the Pudding to be amused merely by sexual ambiguity...
...Marcos called Western reports that he was near death "really exaggerated." But he made selective use of facts and figures to dismiss the concerns of U.S. analysts, blandly promising an imminent upturn in the Philippine economy and a decline in the strength of Communist insurgents. Marcos took refuge in dubious legal arguments to defend the 1973 constitution, tailored to legitimize the powers he had seized under martial law, and denied that he had used his authority to enrich a small circle of friends. Only later, at a dinner that evening, did he admit that "we have committed some errors." Excerpts...
...dubious distinction. The Farm Credit System, a network of 37 banks and 708 credit associations that is the largest single lender to American farmers, has joined the ranks of Chrysler and Lockheed in pleading for a federal bailout to save it from collapse. FCS officials last week went before Congress and in dire tones declared that the system needs $6 billion in federal aid to stay afloat. Said Ray Moss Tucker, a Kentucky dairy farmer and the group's chief spokesman: "Our request for assistance is one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. But we have...
...Dominican Republic, implied that baseball did not want a truly World Series and was conspiring against the Canadian semifinalist, which once employed a Canadian player. Nobody knows yet whether Arkansan Lloyd Moseby caught or trapped a crucial ball in centerfield, but that call and four or five other dubious ones went against Toronto. "If our ball club was American . . ." Bell grumbled three days before the Blue Jays finished squandering their 3-1 lead over Kansas City, thereby missing this week's date with St. Louis, to the edification of all Missouri. Others blamed the capricious officiating on the union...