Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richardson, wrestling on the varsity squad for the first time, turned in the most exciting finish of the afternoon by holding on in the final seconds to beat his Bruin opponent...
...Schlesinger intends to cut 58,000 by July. His budget for 1975 does add one new brigade to the Army but requires the 4,000-5,000 men to be drawn from existing noncombat ranks. Schlesinger also is considering more base cutbacks. Last spring then-Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson announced that 274 military installations in the U.S. would be closed, reduced or consolidated to save $350 million a year. Schlesinger has ordered the services to recommend this spring enough other bases that could possibly be closed to save an additional $500 million a year...
...Died. Richardson Dilworth, 75, two-time Democratic mayor of Philadelphia from 1955-62; of a malignant brain tumor; in Philadelphia. A brilliant lawyer who served in the Marine Corps in World Wars I and II, Dilworth mounted vitriolic attacks against Republicans who had controlled and corrupted city hall since 1884; sued four times for libel, he won every case, and helped Co-Reformer Joseph Clark win the mayoralty in 1951 before being elected himself in 1954. Named by FORTUNE one of the nine best mayors in America, Dilworth was unsuccessful in two attempts to become Governor. But as president...
...personify Richard's weakness, Ian Richardson plays the King as a kind of drag queen. This is disastrous. The epicene approach robs the audience of the pity it should feel for Richard's painful self-knowledge in adversity, and mutes his ringing defense of the divine prerogatives of kingship: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose the deputy elected by the Lord...
...play laced with some of Shakespeare's most musical poetry, Richardson delivers his lines with inflexible metronomic monotony. Only Richard Pasco as Bolingbroke has a regal voice and bearing. He and Richardson switch roles at every other performance, but Pasco does not alter the effete interpretation of the King...