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After the first mile and a half, the varsity race developed into the expected duel between the Crimson's Pete Reider, Dave Norris, and captain Dave McLean, and the Friars' Rod Boucher and Bill Hanlon for the top five positions...
After about three miles, Hillier clipped the corner off a turn to make up his deficit and move into second place. The race then settled into a duel between him and the front-running Reider...
Main interest in the meet will be focussed upon a possible duel for first place between Reider and Ron Hillier, B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion...
...invasion of Russia in 1812--still remains, and so do a considerable number of the major characters. Natasha Rostov still falls in love with the noble soldier, Prince Andrey, and out again, and in again just before Andrey dies. Pierre Bezuhov still marries a worthless woman and fights a duel over her. But their actions, as well as those of some of the minor characters, often appear purely mechanical, without any inner logic that makes it all plausible. These people, even Napoleon, appear to be puppets, on the strings of an invisible master who is not allowed to speak...
...industry's best. Visually, it could scarcely be improved. The Technicolor camera sweeps through Palladian palaces and country estates and catches pleasant fragments of the earthly paradise inhabited by Russia's landed gentry-the balls and hunts, the troika races and officers' revels. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov is fought in a dawnlit forest where snow and awakening sky gleam with as many frosty gradations of white as a pearl fresh from the sea. When Pierre, a civilian at the front, hears the opening guns of the bloody concert at Borodino, he runs awkwardly along...