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Hatfield, a man of boyish good looks, will be responsible for whipping dele gates into a suitable state of partisan enthusiasm and wooing televiewers to the party cause. Actually, Republicans can expect little by way of breathless oratory from him. His delivery is cool, crisp and unemotional, whether on the political stump or talking to a group of his fellow Baptist laymen on the subject of "The Erosion of the Lordship of Christ in the Protestant Church." But Hatfield will give convention voice to the far reaches of the western U.S. And no one doubts that the welltailored, button-down...
Everything worked for the lacrosse team Saturday. As the defense obliterated the Dartmouth attack, Harvard's crisp passing and deadly shooting reduced the Indians' defense to open-mouthed wonder...
...paddock, Hartack got his orders from Trainer Horatio Luro, a transplanted Argentine, whose own Derby record (a first and a third in two tries) was nothing to scoff at. Luro kept it crisp: Northern Dancer was inclined to sulk when he was whipped. "I told Hartack that I do not care for any punishment," he said later, "none whatsoever. Beyond that, I did not tell him anything. He knew the horse. And he had won three Derbies, hadn't he?" Odds at post time: 7 to 5 on Hill Rise; 3 to 1 on Northern Dancer...
...reducing valves change pressures as heating demands vary, thermostats operate other valves to keep steam flow (and, consequently, water temperatures) at desired levels. The temperature of radiator water is also adjusted automatically according to how cold it is outside: when the air in the Lowell House courtyard is a crisp thirty degrees, for example, the water circulating through House radiators is kept...
Weekend's underlying seriousness emerges in one crisp scene, in which an elderly couple stop in to say hello, and stay for lunch. As the aged innocents chatter amiably about the idyllic days of their own youth, the chasm between generations sets the young hosts fidgeting. One by one, guiltily, they drift away. The point is neatly stated. Too often, though, the film exploits the malaise it pretends to examine, and the drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society...