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Armored cars rolled up outside, and their machine gunners opened fire at student snipers on nearby rooftops. One gunner, spotting a suspicious figure in the Regis Hotel, poured 200 rounds toward the room, and thereby killed Tourist Pete Korenda, of Clifton, N.J. Three hours later the firing stopped. At Radio Reloj, cops cut off and killed the fleeing students who had attacked the station. One of them was Student Leader José Antonio Echevarria, 25, who last month told a visiting U.S. newsman that "Cuban students are not afraid...
...agent to handle the requests. Van Doren claims to have made no commitments about his future in show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge for an appearance? "There's a medieval custom," he grins, "that an author never mentions money...
...Elis' Dan Cornwell (52.2) finished fourth, while Harvard's Pete Macky, who had edged Roger Clifton in a swim-off to get into the final, finished a surprise fifth in 53 seconds flat. Anders Anderson (53.3) of Navy took the final position...
...Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. McGill (Syracuse), 3. Pinney (Connecticut), 4. Clinton (Yale), 5. Sherman (Yale), 6. Jones (Amherst)--2:08.7 (Meet and Pool Record). 400-YARD FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Yale (Robinson, Hibbard, Cornwell, Anderson), 2. Harvard (Macky, Clifton, Lind, Dyer), 3. Colgate, 4. Amherst, 5. Navy, 6. Dartmouth--3:25.2 (Meet Record...
...whimsical comedy about a family who had a self-acknowledged genius for a baby sitter, the film pokes pleasant fun at suburban life and mores. Sitting Pretty's main virtue is the superlative acting of Clifton Webb, who at times is wildly hilarious in a deadpan style as a mysterious and omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl...