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...Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president...
...they admire Steve McQueen's resilient cool. Authors Puzo and Talese are esteemed for their portraits of Mafiosi as "men of respect" (although Mafiosi feel that Talese, especially, was taken in by his sources). The alltime Mafia favorite, however, is the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Basil Rathbone, who plays the villainous Sir Guy Gisbourne, is hissed at every appearance. He is the totally corrupt and power-hungry official that Mafiosi feel they know so well. Between Errol Flynn, as Robin, and the cheering Mafia audience there exists, as they might see it, a kind of spiritual...
...series of attacks that continued for four days. Since then the large-scale "reinforced protective reaction strike" has become both a favorite Nixon Administration euphemism and a key element in its Viet Nam withdrawal strategy. Also known as "dynamic defense," a phrase coined by British Strategist Basil Liddell Hart in 1935, that strategy has come to mean the covering of the gradual U.S. pullout on the ground with an open-ended threat to use airpower any time, anywhere in Indochina...
...poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...
...Stage Director Basil Langton learned of the Villa-Lobos score, secured the rights and determined to produce it in the original Spanish. It took him 13 years, but last week Yerma had its world premiere-in Spanish-at the Santa Fe Opera, where as many listeners as could fit into the outdoor amphitheater came to hear...