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Yale has won one game this year, a 9-3 decision over Army. Last anyone be impressed with that triumph Army is a Division II hockey squad that would have a tough time in the Chelsea Bantam League...
Blocking Back. In fact, Neal softens his bantam-rooster combativeness with an easy Tennessee drawl and a gentle farm-boy manner. Spectators at the cover-up trial will not see the showmanship of an F. Lee Bailey or the suave assurance of a James St. Clair. A former Marine captain and star blocking back at the University of Wyoming, Neal is not even especially eloquent. His strength is the sine qua non of all great trial lawyers: preparation. During the past months, he has often put in ten-hour days with a single Watergate wit ness, then worked on into...
Questions of authenticity continue to haunt The Exorcist. Now Greek Orthodox Bishop Mark Athanasios C. Karras of Miami is suing Warner Bros., Harper & Row, Bantam Books and Author William Peter Blatty for the unauthorized use of his name in the book and the movie. He wants $7 million of the work's multimillion-dollar profit. Mark Athanasios C. has exorcised demons for years, he says, and what particularly peeves him is that Blatty has made the fictional Father Karras "a weak and failing priest." Said a professionally wounded, flesh-and-blood Karras: "The book and the picture wrongfully depict...
Whether the new Wallace will have the appeal of the feisty bantam of old is another matter. In Alabama, at least, the transformation seems to have been accepted. Wallace launches his candidacy for a third term as Governor this week, and he is considered a shoo-in. Only one serious Democratic candidate has filed against him for the primary this spring; no Republican has yet declared. "Anyone would have to be a nut to run against Wallace this year," concedes former U.S. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, who was considered to be the most likely G.O.P. candidate. Wallace...
Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...