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This portrait of the artist as a middle-aged mediocrity is sometimes so subtle in its investigation of the intricacies of love that it recalls Stendhal. In the superb English translation of Angus Davidson, Conjugal Love moves with the assurance of a little masterpiece...
...Angus McLean (Brown) pinned Icko Iben with a sidearm chancery at 2:56; 147--Frank Scolpine (Navy) decisioned Bud Adams, 8-1; 157--Don Swygert (Army) decisioned Joe Hubbard, 9-0; 167--Murray Winer (Syracuse) pinned Neil Hastie with a sidearm chancery at 4:44; 177--Russ Schelling (Franklin and Marshall) decisioned Charlie Keith, 7-1; unlimited--Jim Hunt (Navy) pinned Jerry Blitz with a reverse nelson...
...theme closely like one explored six months ago in a slick first novel by Timothy Angus Jones, son of Novelist Bagnold and Sir Roderick Jones...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
...Peiping government courted the recognition of other nations, but when Britain complied (the most important non-Communist power to do so) Mao rebuffed her. Communist China asked admission to the U. N., but as soon as the United States began the look favorably upon the proposal, Peiping provoked the Angus ward incident...