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Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech (Jason Robards...
...Three times before Sugar Ray Robinson had won back his middleweight championship in rematches, but the greatest craftsman of his day was only a floundering 40-year-old as he tried to regain the comic-opera title of New York and Massachusetts from a pug named Paul Pender. After losing a split decision in Boston, even the Sugar seemed to feel he was finished: "I just didn't have what it takes. I didn't do nothing. I lost...
...vampires"-back home he sued several of them for libel, and won. Perhaps he had stayed in Europe too long; on his return he seemed out of step with Jacksonian America, and though he wrote many more novels-including several highly popular Leatherstocking tales-he could not really regain the favor of critics or public...
...neared the boiling point the twisted ropes of the DNA molecules untwisted, separated into single strands with no biological potency. In quickly cooled solutions, the strands stayed that way. But when the solution was cooled slowly, the separated strands had time to find each other, and twist together and regain much of their power to transform living bacteria...
...effort to regain his job, Koch appealed to the faculty committee on academic freedom and to the American Association of University Professors. At week's end, neither group had come to a decision. But another faculty committee, backing President Henry, had already called Professor Koch's letter "a grave breach of academic responsibility...