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Also Juanito Duffy, 19; Marion Fienberg, 21; Meg Raymond, 22; Janet Press, 18; Nancy Gretsky, 22; Enid Sippen, 21; Jill Wattenberg, 20; Vicky Gahiner, 27; and Susan Hagedorn...
...Face it, Enid," Dad says to Mum. "He's not normal." They are talking about their crazy 21-year-old son Martin (Hywel Bennett), whose idea of a big time is to masquerade as merely retarded. Martin spots an attractive bird named Susan (Hayley Mills) and hatches a plot that eventually gets Dad done in, Susan-ravaged, and Susan's mom cut up like so much kindling. This exercise in Petit Guignol, called Twisted Nerve, has all the suspense of a marshmallow roast, and struggles to make itself more plausible by adding some genetic gibberish about chromosomal damage...
...Died. Enid Blyton, seventyish, prolific British author of calm, cozy children's books; of a coronary thrombosis; in a London hospital. Despite criticism that her work was sentimental, few bedtimes were complete without a story about Toyland, inhabited by Little Noddy the Pixie and Mr. Plod the Policeman. She authored some 400 titles (translated into 33 languages), and her sales in Britain alone topped the 85 million mark...
Died. Clyde M. Warrior, 28, Oklahoma Ponca Indian who founded and led the National Indian Youth Council to fight for "Red Power" and against the frustrations he encountered that turned him into an alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Enid, Okla. In 1963, when few Americans linked Indians with civil rights, Warrior participated in the March on Washington, shortly after formed his youth council of 2,000 braves, which is dedicated to winning real acceptance for the nation's 600,000 red men and women...
...acknowledged the better poet of the two candidates, is Wadham College Warden Sir Maurice Bowra, who himself held the chair from 1946 to 1951. Bowra launched his campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell. "She'll be standing on Magdalen...