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Without Apology. Last spring, as a junior drill instructor, Matt McKeon led Recruit Platoon 71 on a night disciplinary march into the tidal waters of Ribbon Creek, where six boots were drowned (TIME, April 23). McKeon was charged with drinking in the barracks beforehand, with "oppression" of the platoon, and with culpable negligence in the six deaths. Maximum penalty for conviction on all counts: six years in prison and a dishonorable discharge...
...program, fourth in the series of "Special Events in the Arts" being sponsored jointly by Harvard and M.I.T., will take place in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free to registered students and faculty members, but tickets must be obtained beforehand by personal application at Grays Hall, Room...
Whatever lassitude he may have shown beforehand Maurice Duplessis quickly shook off. As always, he made the devout gesture of setting Election Day on Wednesday, the devotional day of St. Joseph, his favorite saint. Then he donned a brown suit (his lucky color) and set off crisscrossing the province in one of his gaudy, old-style election campaigns, complete with banners, fireworks, and plentiful displays of the Duplessis-commissioned fleur-de-lis flag. His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent...
...have to make a fantastic proposition out of anybody. I live and pitch by a few basic rules. You don't have to make a big study of batters beforehand. When I have good stuff I throw four fast balls out of five pitches. You can basically confuse yourself by typing each hitter or worrying too much about righthanders and lefthanders. I don't have any special trouble with lefthanders...
...conflict in Miss Julie is as much be tween classes as sexes. At a Midsummer Eve revel, arrogant, dissatisfied Miss Julie, the neurotic child of parents who hated each other, becomes infatuated with her father's valet and tempts him into an affair. Respectful enough beforehand, he turns sneeringly overbearing. But, however revolted, Miss Julie is also desperate. She steals her father's money to try to run away with her lover, in the end seizes her lover's razor to do away with herself...