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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ties & Tradition. The nine second-generation Braun-Menendezes (three sisters along with the brothers) are closer than Kennedys. All live in the same fashionable residential block in Buenos Aires, spend their weekends at a Hyannis Port-like suburban compound, where each has a chalet, and the men spend much time watching the younger generation play polo on a family team. Altogether they have 63 children, many of whom marry cousins or into families with promising business connections. "Above all," says Brother Armando, "we think and act as a family unit. The children in their way will keep the family...
...adaptation from a novel instead of an original Renoir creation. But the theft of ideas from other films is unforgivable and infuriating. Remember that hilarious scene in Stalag 17 when Harry and Animal paint a white line down the middle of the road to the Russian women's compound? Renoir turned his team of escapers into road measurers instead of painters. Escape from Colditz, A British film of the early fifties, had a scene in which two escapees stowed away on a dump truck only to be dumped later in the middle of their prison compound. You'll find that...
UMass's habit of using a lot of backfield motion, shifts to new formations, and other tricks compound the defensive difficulties. Halfback Fred Lewis, a 210-pound cannonball with speed, presents the defense with plenty of problems no matter what the formation. His particular specialty is the end run, a play which is fraught with touchdown potential every time it is called...
...peasant's beard with a magnifying glass, and witches would continue to stalk the lands of Europe for as long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, was proposing a theory of representative government with such eloquence that Oswald...
Uncertainty out of Washington is not exactly news, but one of the more curious aspects of the South Viet Nam story is that the press corps on the scene is helping to compound the very confusion that it should be untangling for its readers at home...