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Nick Tilney will take over the bow position for this race, and veteran bow John Lapsley will move to the number seven oar. Bob McLaughlin will occupy the important cox position, and Fred Schwartz will be stroke. The rest of the boat will be Art Hodges, two; Jim McClennon, three; Jim Leonard, four; Peter Tulloch, five; and Charlie Faulkner...
...France was shocked. President Coty rushed to the hospital to bow before Chekkal's body; the funeral oration was delivered by Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs Marcel Champeix. While the Cairo radio crowed of a victory and urged terrorists on to greater efforts, police scoured the squalid Algerian quarters of Paris, hauled in 2,900 Moslems for questioning...
...Ryan X-13 Vertijet, long rumored and unofficially described, made its official bow at a Pentagon showing last week. Its vertical takeoff, transition to horizontal flight and vertical landing-demonstrated by a movie-were an uncanny spectacle...
...investigate its lace-curtain vices. The Schwetzingen Festival (near Heidelberg) gave Composer Egk a handsome, cartoon-style production (by noted Stage Director Gunther Rennert), with the opera's townspeople outlandishly garbed in a mid-19th century assortment of green swallow-tailed coats, crimson velvet caps and propeller-sized bow ties. As the townspeople press money and the favors of their womenfolk on the "inspector"-in the end, of course, he turns out to be merely an amiable, drink-swilling traveler -Composer Egk accompanies them with a staccato, dissonant score pricked by brisk and frequently shifting rhythms. Old-fashioned opera...
Then occurred the kind of event which her second husband, Critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow considered decisive to the character of a writer-the wound for which a life of writing must compensate. In the flu epidemic of 1918 Mary McCarthy's parents died, and she was an orphan in a strange bed in a strange city-Minneapolis. Mary and her brothers were condemned to razorstrop beatings in the downstairs lavatory by a hated uncle. Her Uncle Myers is now dead, but the narrative of life under his hateful roof (presents were taken away because...