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...cornfield, dark night, no moon. Suddenly police sirens wail, the orchestra sends up shrieks-of-terror music, and automobile headlights pierce the cornstalks, blinding the audience. Police spotlights swim through the corn as two men break through and hurl themselves to the ground. The lights move away, the sirens fade, the men get to their feet, dust themselves off, and begin the harrowing story of long-suffering, downtrodden George and his simple-minded buddy Lennie. Of Mice and Men is once more on the stage, not as a play but an opera...
...team, scored late in the game on two twirling shots and set up two more baskets on behind-the-back and hook passes through mazes of players. Another sub, Tom Backenstose grabbed a pass with a second left in the game and threw up a fade-away jump shot at the buzzer that swished the net to put the freshmen over the century mark...
...Rome, there is no intention to back down. The cause for canonization was opened in 1961, and the investigation has now been completed. Soon a consistory of about 25 prelates will meet in Rome to give their final approval. The Vatican is confident that the uproar in Britain will fade away before the tribunal reaches its verdict. After all, other Catholic martyrs of the same period-notably Sir Thomas More -were proclaimed saints without causing a ripple...
...Ambassador to Viet Nam in 1963. "I am not a diplomat. I am a family man, and I miss my family," Lodge explained. Lodge probably would have stayed on if he had seen any sign of movement in the talks. An exponent of the theory that the war will fade away rather than end with a formal settlement, he became convinced that the Communists have no desire to seek an agreement. They are not likely to do so, he thinks, unless the South Vietnamese forces prove their capacity to carry on the war indefinitely. They would require continued massive American...
...memories of the April takeover and Stander's radical course Soc Rel 149 fade away, Stander can more readily present himself to his colleagues as a rational social anthropologist rather than a high-strung radical...