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Cornell, it must be noted, is winless this fall, and provided easy pickings for a skilled team like Harvard. Balancing the few talented Big Red operatives, such as Pulver and center halfback Bill Hutchinson, were a slew of turkeys like Kevin Suffern. The blond halfback kicked the ball nowhere-in-particular every time he got it and relied on bumping and tripping to stop his man, Robertson...
...killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with the Mafia or actively participated in it. In one monastery, a monk member of the Mafia slew a district Mafia chief, who also happened to be his father superior...
...tribe because her husband (Dennis Weaver) doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
Died. Sir Ernest Gowers, 85, British civil servant, who served for 60 years in every capacity from Lloyd George's secretary to London civil defense chief in World War II, known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...
There was nothing much to distinguish Young from a slew of administration democrats until the Vietnam issue arose. His left-of-administration stands were confined to matters like the Domestic Peace Corps and fallout shelters, which he regarded as nonsensical. But with his 1964 win, he had the political flexibility to join the Senate's miniscule band of outright opponents...