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...goalie, who switched to offense on man-up situations, had five stops. Gary Braun, a former attackman, played in the nets as a replacement for the Engineers' regular starter, who is out of action with a torn knee ligament. Saturday Harvard hopes to take its first Ivy League victory by defeating Dartmouth...
...combat missions. Currently, the Thieu regime is mounting a morale-stiffening campaign around Captain Tran The Vinh, a Vietnamese ace who was credited with knocking out 21 North Vietnamese tanks before he died two weeks ago, at the age of 25, in the crash of his shell-torn Skyraider. Posters of Vinh, making a jaunty thumbs-up sign, appeared all over Saigon last week...
Chinking the empty spaces in Nick's life with torn-off bits of prose, arranged chronologically so as to provide more information about him, is not an improvement. The resonance is dulled. We are given, for example, three pages about young Nick's nighttime fears, which Hemingway cut from the beginning of Indian Camp. There is a mawkish 63-page shard of an unfinishable novel, telling how the teen-aged Nick and his kid sister hide in the woods to escape a couple of improbably Snopesian game wardens. (In his Hemingway biography Carlos Baker very properly deals with...
...laden with references to the then recent assasination of Bobby Kennedy, the strangely ominous atmosphere of the Easthampton party, and suspicions of a spontaneous assassination attempt on Mr. Mailer himself. The denouement of the film came, we are informed, when on the last day of the week Mr. Rip Torn attacked Mr. Kingsley Mailer with a seriously weilded hammer, hit him on the head with the flat of it, and in return had his ear bitten bloody. We wonder whether Mr. Mailer might really have been more pleased with the way the film emerged if the assasin had attacked more...
...candidate by sobbing in the snows of New Hampshire, ironically at the very time that Nixon in Peking was acting as the healer of international passions. This outburst was partly the result of Muskie's emotional and physical fatigue. Trying to be all things to all people, and torn by his commitments to so many primary campaigns, he lost his sense of direction, creating doubts about his ability to stand up under pressure...