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...squad's stiffest competition in the preliminary round should come from Williams, which conquered the women racketeers twice last year--once in the Howe Cup. The Crimson dumped Williams 5-2 earlier this season, but the revenge won't be complete without a victory Saturday...
...meekly let himself be used in the Watergate coverup. Clarence Kelley, the tough cop who had headed the Kansas City, Mo., police department, allowed himself to be hobbled by the Hoover clique of high-level bureaucrats at FBI headquarters. Last week former Federal Judge William H. Webster confronted the stiffest test of his ten months as FBI director and apparently passed...
Brustein reports that Kingman Brewster had initially said to him, "You've been shooting your mouth off about the theater--why don't you do something about it?" And for one of the stiffest critics in theater, there were "painful consequences" in dealing with people when he tried to put his ideals into action. One consequence was that Brustein has gained a reputation among some people for arrogance. But his colleagues dismiss this, finding him gentlemanly and stimulating. "He's no more arrogant than any other talented person I've ever worked with," says Alvin Epstein...
Next Friday, the thinclads take their string of victories to treacherous Van Courtland Park in New York City for the Heptagonals, where their stiffest competition should come from Cornell...
...eligible to apply for parole in the year 2002, after serving only 25 years. New York's penal law, like many other state penalty statutes, provides for parole eligibility after a prisoner has served his minimum term, or, in cases which carry several sentences, after the single stiffest minimum has been served. The law was designed in 1965 to give courts and parole boards the capability of being lenient. But it also raises, at least remotely, the possibility that a deranged killer like Berkowitz could some day be returned to the streets. His case gives new ammunition to proponents...