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Paul Halas provided the early spark, drawing a walk and moving to third on a single by Tommy Joyce. Petter Bannish then contributed a sacrifice fly, and Harvard cruised into a 1-0 edge...
That gremlin with the Groucho stash is really Sandy Dennis, disguised as a payoff man in the movie The Abbess. Based on Novelist Muriel Spark's spoof of Watergate, The Abbess of Crewe, the film features Dennis, Melina Mercouri and Geraldine Page as nuns engaging in some unholy intrigue. Says Sandy: "I play a not very bright sister who talks loudly and does what my mother used to call 'all the grunt work' " -including the delivery of hush money to a men's room in Philadelphia. At that point, justice triumphs, and Sandy is nabbed...
...French Crusaders -which is within artillery range of settlements inside Israel. Many of the deserting Moslem troops were believed to be sympathetic to the Palestinian guerrillas, and there were fears last week that they might fire across the border-thereby provoking a strong Israeli retaliation that could easily spark a new Middle East...
...EVENTS OF the last week are illustrative. The spark of the dispute was a Seattle Times news report on comments made by the dean in Seattle, Washington, in mid-February. In the story, Kilbridge is quoted as saying, "You have to depend on biological replacement of teachers, and they generally stop learning at the age of 35" and that "practicing architects don't even have a vocabulary to share their experienkes with others." While the article is not free from sloppy reporting, two witnesses have vouched for its overall accuracy. Kilbridge, for his part, has failed to request any retraction...
Vidal also maintains a spacious apartment in Rome but spends less and less time there. He is friendly with journalists and occasionally sees such fellow novelists as Anthony Burgess and Muriel Spark. Curiously for the author of Julian and a man who considers Christianity "the single greatest disaster that has ever happened to the West," Vidal seems to delight in the company of clerics. One of the people he dines with in Rome is American Jesuit John Navone, a theologian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. When Navone once brought a group of visiting Jesuits to Vidal's apartment, Vidal...