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...Halloween night ten of the students paraded around the campus in white sheets, dragging the eleventh in tattered clothes by a rope...
Eliot, who was to depart after the first period, had no chance on Harvard's second marker, a patented frozen rope from the point by Mark Fusco at 4:41. The red-haired freshman defenseman from Burlington, Mass., now tops the Harvard scoring list with nine goals and nine assists for 18 points...
John Paul's visit to the Philippines will serve as the rope for a church-government tugof war. Marcos will try to reap maximum exposure. The church under Sin's direction will try to steer the Vatican away from such exploitation and use the visit to close ranks among its own members. If Marcos oversteps his bounds, he may trigger a more severe church reaction. Several clergy fear the Marcos's may ask the Pope to conduct their daughter's wedding ceremony. One of Sin's closest advisers suggested that the Pope may visit political detainees to make a definitive...
Another Columbia movie that has done fairly well is The Electric Horseman, a kind of rope opera about an ex-rodeo star's rebellion against commercial exploitation of him and a nag. Though the picture, which cost $18 million including publicity, grossed $14.25 million in its first twelve days, it has not had nearly the drawing power the studio hoped it would, given the luster of its two stars, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. United Artists' Being There, which stars Peter Sellers as a gardener who may become President, has opened well in Manhattan and Los Angeles theaters...
...Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic, 1978). Politicized punk, the musical equivalent of being roughed-up in a back alley. R.I.P. the Sex Pistols...