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WATCHING JEPSEN we are reminded of Adolf Eichmann, the office worker and patriot who, busily arranging deportation dates and train schedules, had neither the chance nor the inclination to point the finger of death at individual victims. Here was, in Hannah Arendt's words, "a mass murderer who had never killed." But Eichmann, like the fictional Jepsen, was no mindless cog in the Nazi machine. He was an individual who liked his job and did it well. When Himmler ordered Eichmann near the end of the war to halt the deportation of Hungarian Jews, the outraged bureaucrat threatened to appeal...
...word was that the Fuzz, coached by former Patriot Earthquake Hunt, were deputizing guys, giving them badges so they'd qualify on the surface, at least. Drastic revisionary measurer were needed, and pretty soon these guys from the Malden Colts began showing up at Sunday practice and observing the proceedings. A couple at first, but the number began growing, and after a while the whole damn offense was running through signal drills. A guy named Rick Furbush, who handed off to Ed Marinaro at Cornell for two years, was quarterback. Richie Szaro who sent Furbush home a loser two years...
...Boston Athletic Association broke a 76 year tradition Wednesday when it announced that women would be allowed to run in the 1972 Boston Marathon on Patriot...
...acidulous prime, almost everybody had something to say about the country's most controversial neWWs-boy. To Ed Sullivan he was a "cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...
...reflecting the view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely beaten in 1968 for calling the government "a dictatorship of dimwits," has been allowed under Gierek to travel abroad...