Word: boland
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...will undeniably miss DeGraaf, but converted halfback and Captain Art Boland may prove a more than adequate replacement. The lightest member of the squad at 152, he led the team in rushing average as a sophomore (6.4) and was second last season (6.0). More important in view of his quarterback responsibilities is the fact that he completed eight out of eleven passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns last year...
Though author Bridget Boland says she draws no direct allusions to the Cardinal Mindszenty case, the parallels in her screen play are striking. The effects of psychological torture on men of intelligence and faith have been recurrently evident in mock trials, both in Poland and Nuremberg, which first suggested the idea to her. The Prisoner, however, identifies no nation nor name. It is essentially a film which reaffirms a Christian ethic in any totalitarian state in any time...
...speech, like most of the important ones in this clever melodrama, does not quite carry the intended conviction. The trouble seems to be that Bridget Boland, who wrote the script as well as the play (a hit in London) on which it is based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that...
Crises elsewhere may come and go, but Berlin remains the No. 1 testing spot of the cold war. In Berlin last week the cold war got perceptibly hotter. It all began when two junketing U.S. Congressmen, Massachusetts Democrat Edward P. Boland and New York Republican Harold C. Ostertag, motored into East Berlin to see one of the standard tourist sights: the ponderous Red army war memorial. They rode, accompanied by a U.S. Army Lieutenant, in a radio-telephone-equipped Army sedan. East German Volkspolizei approached the parked car and forced the party at pistol point to follow them...
...BOLAND Alton...