Word: defenders
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Almost anything could ignite the country. In the backlands, many landowners stand ready to defend their property against peasant invasion; in the state of Goiás alone, 20,000 landholders have their own "Force for the Defense of Private Properties." Sāo Paulo Governor Adhemar de Barros is actually selling cut-rate submachine guns, rifles and pistols to landowners all over Brazil. This week Barros and four other state governors plan to form a "United Front in Defense of Democracy." Even the women are organizing. "We'll hold a rosary in one hand...
...Niederhoffer will defend his University squash title against Bob Hetherington of the Divinity School Thursday at 5 p.m. in Hemenway Gymnasium...
Although none of last year's individual champions are returning to defend their titles, the match will include some of the top collegiate fencers. Marvin Garvoy of N.Y.U., who won the Eastern crown, is returning to the Nationals to compete in the foil. Paul Pesthy, Rutgers' winner in the sabre, will also enter. John Rayfields, Eastern epee winner from C.C.N.Y., will also be on band...
...hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with a sober, almost...
Michael Shinagel, teaching fellow in English, who will teach a course on eighteenth-century literature at Cornell next year, said that Putnam's has contacted him, and that he will defend Fanny Hill as "a historical curiosity" if he is asked...