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Driving to work one winter morning in his 45th year, Barney Cashman, as securely strapped into his black four-door sedan as into his whole middle-class existence, pulls up at a toll booth He looks yearningly across at a ravishing beauty in the car next to him. "So many pretty girls," he soliloquizes. "When I was a kid, there were maybe six or seven pretty girls. Today they're all pretty...
Author David Rabe has written a play on the war in Vietnam that defies a million slogans to become a contemporary masterpiece. Pavlo Hummel is an innocuous little guy from 231 East 45th Street, Manhattan, who with the beginning of his basic training is on the way to becoming "the fattest rat in the finest cheese." Lost in the big world, Pavlo has adopted army standards and has committed himself to a pathetic struggle to meet them. Fresh from his overwhelming success as the son in the Godfather, Al Pacino gives a performance that can have no equal...
...championship once again this year, beating scrappy Florida State 81-76 in the final. It marked the Bruins' sixth straight victory in the championship, now known in some circles as the U.C.L.A. Invitational. It was also the Bruins' eighth title in the past nine years and their 45th consecutive victory in regular-season games and playoffs. And the end is not in sight. Four of this year's five starters, including the college player of the year, Sophomore Center Bill Walton, will be back next year...
...every request from the Chinese. Color television sets and hot plates were added to every room, a Chinese chef was hired, extra-large teacups were bought and the red flag of China was hoisted beside the Stars and Stripes hanging in front of the hotel at Madison Avenue and 45th Street...
...also distinguished himself in other activities. After serving as a special justice on the Judicial Council and as an assistant U. S. Attorney, he became in 1958 one of the first blacks named to Massachusetts's Superior Court bench. He died in Quincy in 1966, two days before the 45th anniversary of his world-record performance...