Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name India Edwards is not one that will long be remembered in the history of either the Democratic Party or the women's movement. She held no elective office or Cabinet post; except for her electrifying speeches at the 1952 and 1956 Democratic conventions she graced no national stage...
...blackmail a Polish-born American diplomat, Constantine Warvariv, 53, using prefabricated evidence of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. Some State Department officials, still furious about the Lusis case, suspect the attempted blackmail of Warvariv was a Soviet retaliation for the schoolboy affair. More likely, the two incidents were unrelated, except as twin pieces of evidence that spooks will be spooks, it seems, regardless of the initials under which they operate...
Director Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...
Although the games did not mean much of anything, except perhaps to departing seniors and coaches pointing toward next year, the Ivy League finished out the football season in Providence, Philadelphia and Princeton yesterday. Brown, Penn and the home Tigers all snatched final-day victories to end this highly unusual (so what else is new?) Ivy football season. While entertaining visions of a three-or four-way tie for the league title, Brown (5-2 Ivy, 7-2 overall) waged battle with lowly Columbia on Alumni Field, and though the Bruins departed with a 21-14 victory, the title...
...already stopped in Roxbury to pick up the kids. Now it's rolling through Dedham and into the suburb of Walpole, a placid, ordinary community except for the enormous white structure looming in the dusk: a state prison that shares the town's name--a name that signifies everything wrong with prisons in this part of the country...