Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...entire validity of the bill assumes that the Boston Patriots professional football team, a private corporation with stockholders, can be legally classified as an object in the public interest." Contrary to what Mr. Daley and my friend at the Globe, Bud Collins, believe, that assumption is a little naive...
Drugs can only be legally administered by a veterinarian but around the racetrack many drugs are given without the "doctor's orders." Trainers, a paranoid and calculating lot, seek the infinitesimal edge over their neighbor. They suspect their best friend of trying to beat them out of a purse and a winning bet, and as a defense they scheme 24 hours a day to protect themselves against chicanery. For a few of them the best defense is a good offense, and their rule is- if you don't get caught, you didn...
...Taylor's idea. "She'll come as a friend, like one of us," he says, "with the understanding that she doesn't choose between us." Bert agrees, but it is a compact made to be broken. Taylor, longingly in love with Marty, clings to his word; he cannot bring himself to violate the agreement and "ruin the beautiful summer" by sleeping with her. Bert has no such scruples. The result is as inevitable as autumn...
...dahlias, but somehow, in the overpowering presence of Augusta, Henry leaves the urn behind in his aunt's apartment. He is only reminded of his dead mother by a chance conversation overheard in a pub. "Peter can talk about nothing," a girl complains about her absent boy friend, "but- the Ashes."* The urn is recovered, but not before Auntie's servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul...
...Shock Corridor also criticizes American go- gutter ideals. Its hero, obsessed with making it, tramples on others including his girl friend- a stripper, a social outcast. Dreams of her calling to him help drive him insane. The asylum's other inmates are even more explicitly victims of social contradictions-anti-Communism and race hatred...