Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIDNIGHT is A PLACE. 287 pages. Viking. $6.95. ARABEL'S RAVEN. 118 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters...
...goaltending situation also should be improved from last year, with junior returnees John Aiken and Jim Murray. As sophomores, these two split the goaltending chores last year, with Murray seeing more action, and both should be improved from last season. In addition, Cleary has an excellent goalie up from the freshman squad in Brian Petrovik, who just might beat out Aiken and Murray for the starting berth...
...prematurely gray Leahy a state's attorney for Chittenden County, kept plugging at a theme with peculiar appeal to Vermonters: there was no place for partisanship in replacing "the strong independent vote we've had for 34 years," the vote of retiring G.O.P Senate Dean George Aiken. Leahy won in the end, by 4,000 votes...
Pincus also discussed the enormous influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the way it did under Fulbright's leadership...
...Pericles of Putney/ The Voltaire of Vermont/ He'll blush at titles like that/ But aptness they do not want." The man so honored by the maimed meter of Senator Edward Brooke last week was his Senate colleague, George Aiken of Vermont. It was a combination birthday (his 82nd) and farewell party given by former Texas Congressman Frank Ikard for the retiring dean of the U.S. Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork...