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...Blows, there are garbage cans and arguing couples at every turn. As in Stolen Kisses. he constantly meets up with the dead and the lonely harbingers of his own doom. In this case there is a recluse in his apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion to borrow money; a neighborhood woman who makes feeble amorous advances, more out of habit than anything else; and a mysterious, silent young man whom...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Films Bed and Board at the Paris Cinema | 3/24/1971 | See Source »

...Italia, and nine more LASH ships are under construction in the U.S. The vessels are designed to operate with a 31-man crew, but maritime unions forced Prudential to hire 38. Fearful of losing jobs because the barges can be unloaded in mid-harbor and towed to distant river points, longshoremen wrested a promise from shipowners to load only at dockside in the U.S. Despite such make-work arrangements, shipping men expect the LASH vessels to open a new era in ocean cargo transportation. If so, the Lash Italia could be the most important new American ship since the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Barge Carriers Bid for Lost Sea Trade | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Besides winning at the foil. N. Y. U. easily won the Easterns, winning 88 bouts. Columbia was a distant second with 72, followed by Navy with 68, Penn with 62, and then Harvard with its 58 wins. In last year's competition, the Crimson finished seventh...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Fencers Finish Fifth in Easterns | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Finishing fourth in the 150-pound division, captain Pat Coleman was the only Crimson wrestler to place in the Eastern championships Saturday at Annapolis, Md., as Harvard finished a distant tenth place behind upset victor Penn State...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Matmen Tenth at Navy | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Full Harvard-Radcliffe merger, still a distant possibility, poses the threat of job layoffs for many of the 185 members of Radcliffe's chapter of the International Building Service Employees Union...

Author: By David F. White, | Title: Union Will Fight Possible Layoffs | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

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