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...after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother, edentate, gibbering, gaunt, propped up in her wheelchair like a gnarled old angel of death; Rufus amidst mystifying adult rituals at the funeral parlor where he goes to see his father. But too often a good beginning comes to naught. Scenes shot with a camera placed no more than knee-high to a grasshopper can supply kidsight without insight, and Michael Kearney, the eight-year-old newcomer cast and ineptly directed as Rufus, wears a grave, pinched expression that suggests little beyond the possibility that he has a loose tooth...
...many of the guys running airlines are the same ones who started the open-cockpit mail runs." He calmly took on Pan American President Juan Trippe, forcing him to return 390,000 shares that Pan Am had acquired in a swap during a 1958 merger maneuver that came to naught...
...this week is the extent of the President's commitment to modernizing procedural rules in both the House and the Senate. Kennedy fought hard to enlarge the Rules Committee and cripple its inhibitory power; now he will have to fight again if his work is not to go for naught...
...attribute squareness into the table's essence, for aesthetic reasons of my own." James claimed that every object is represented in some standard attitude, at some particular distance, of some typical size, and so forth. Yet each of these characteristics, which together constitute the "objectivity" of the object are naught but sensations--like all the "subjective" variations...
...unless the offense comes out of its present lethargic state, Del Rossi's energy could go for naught. In its last 29 innings of baseball, the varsity has scored seven runs, three of which have been unearned. And in this same stretch it has come up with only one extra base hit--and that was a double. Gavin Gilmore presently leads the team with a .367 batting average...