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...Radcliffe team had looked strong in pre-season matches against the men's team, with its potent front line of captain Ellen Ronse, Penny Morehead, Jane Lord, Mary Lightbody, and Nancy Cochran. The well heeled five learned the game at Garrison Forest, Concord, and other prep schools...
...reaction provoked by / Never Sang tot My Father, Author Robert Anderson's self-indulgent adaptation of his self-indulgent Broadway play. Director Gilbert Gates moves Anderson's characters with soap-opera mawkishness through father-son conflicts that are no less tiresome for their undeniable reality. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) is a Westchester County octogenarian Babbitt who fulminates against "some damned savage who will walk off with the luggage" at Kennedy Airport and complains to a fellow Rotarian about "some bozo who has been crowding into our pew at church." As a child he worshiped his mother and despised...
...with each other. Among them: South Viet Nam's worsening economic condition and what it means by its ability to "cope" as America withdraws; the current South Vietnamese election campaign (see WORLD); Thieu's insistence that, to ensure the peace, the U.S. keep a 60,000-man garrison in South Viet Nam even after Vietnamization is complete. CAMBODIA: Protected by U.S. helicopter gunships in the air and by Secret Service men on the ground, Agnew made an unannounced, though scheduled visit to a capital city less than ten miles away from the fighting...
...notion of teen-age gangs evokes memories of the '50s, of leather-jacketed youths sporting zip guns and garrison belts, of the Sharks and the Jets in the urban ballet that was West Side Story. To the residents of Chicago's sprawling black ghetto, however, the images are more immediate and far more menacing...
...eighth day of power, the Heath government was confronted with its first real crisis. London had already decided to bolster the 8,000-man garrison in Northern Ireland with 3,000 more British troops. Its decision followed a threat by Ulster's Protestant militants, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, to hold a series of Orange Order parades of the kind that provoked last year's violence between Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority. The extra soldiers were needed sooner than anyone had expected...