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Anne Bancroft, as Annie Sullivan, comes onstage in her drab grey traveling suit and black, high-laced shoes. The stiff back, the solemn, measured steps are at once determined and shy. It is the hard-jawed fighter who meets her charge for the first time and all but devours the child with her eyes. It is the troubled stranger, caught suddenly between youthful belligerence and a growing awareness of responsibility, who catches a doll full in the mouth, spits a broken tooth into her cupped palm, agonizes over a job she may not be able to handle...
...Stiff Sentence. In San Marino, Calif., covering the city's first armed robbery since 1952, the Tribune reported: "$40 was wrongfully expropriated...
...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
...reduce your exports. Just don't ship unduly heavy quantities which would wreck a specific American industry." To many a successful Hong Kong Chinese garmentmaker, voluntary curbs seem to be a high price to pay for a success built with little U.S. aid in the face of stiff Japanese and European competition. Many are balking, though Lee argues that the industry "has grown too fast, must discipline itself" for the long-term benefit...
With the BC game this Saturday, Weiland is still undecided on the exact make-up of his secondary lines, due to tight competition at all positions. Another healthy sign, the competition, has produced stiff, fast practices this last week, and has given the squad an increased incentive and spirit. As one player put it Monday, "Last year we lost several games which we entered as distinct favorites. This year that won't happen...