Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find a wholly apocryphal story about me once again-this time I am at the boxing matches in Bangkok, where I am reported as "declining to take a bow" in the ring [March 30]. Oh yes? And just who asked me to? Though I am now a person of such magnitude as to have appeared two consecutive months in your PEOPLE section, you should know that Thai fight fans aren't all that au coumnt about who is "in" this year, particularly among American-Jewish novelists, whom T believe they find inscrutable...
...said British Actor Wilfrid Hyde White recently, with a bow to the Bard and an eye to the gaming tables and betting shops that stretch the length and breadth of the sceptered isle. Britain is Europe's gamblingest nation, and legalized betting may be the country's largest industry. Britain's 16,000 betting shops, 1,200 casinos and 2,000 bingo clubs employ 100,000 people and account for an estimated yearly turnover of $5 billion. The government's slice is nearly $250 million...
...rapids. Lewis Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried or sunk to avoid trouble with the police...
...remainder of the Harvard boat is: senior Steve Brooks at six, sophomore Dave Mitchell at five, senior Ed Porter at four, junior Bill Hobbs at three, senior Charlie Hamlin at two, and senior Mike Livingston in the bow. The coxswain is junior Tom Tiffany...
...standoff continued through the night as State police advanced, firing cannisters of tear gas into the crowd Students fled down Plympton, DeWolf, and Bow Sts, tossing bricks and rocks. Many protestors fled into the courtyards of Quincy House and Lowell House. At one point police charged into Lowell Quincy, Adams, and Claverly to make arrests, State Police, making a sweep down the street, fired several gas cannisters into the Quincy courtyard and the front entrance of Lowell House. Gas fumes choked students in Claverly...