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With the appearance of the WHA, the pro-hockey scene has been transformed into the paradigm of a bipolar model. Along with that second bloc of teams come all the crises and machinations of the typical dichotomous set-up. Deterrance--the art of producing in the mind of a player the fear to jump the league--dominates the hockey scene. Bobby Hull fell victim to this threat when he was denied a chance to play in last year's Canada-Russia series...
...result, the set-up of the museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over...
...regional set-up gathers in its charges like an overprotective mother hen (or a maternal boa constrictor) from the five surrounding towns: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Goose Rocks Beach, Arundel, and Kennebunk Beach. For at least the last ten years the towns have been debating whether or not to build a new school...
Lemmer first met Camil in Kansas City, Mo. in November 1971 at a VVAW national steering committee meeting. In Kansas City, Lemmer said, Camil "made reference to organization and his organization's set-up ... he said he was training political assassination squads." Camil called his training project "Phoenix II" and had "no specific targets," Lemmer testified...
Died. Robert Ryan, 63, ruggedly good-looking actor with a talent for violent roles; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Among Ryan's best performances in a screen career that spanned 30 years and some 90 films: the aging, failing prizefighter in The Set-Up (1949) and an anti-Semitic Marine in Crossfire (1947). Onstage he scored more recent triumphs in a Broadway revival of The Front Page (1969), in which he played the cynical managing editor, Walter Burns, and as the father in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night...