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Dave Bing of Syracuse and Jim Walker of Providence were the only repeaters from last year's squad. The top point-getter was Villanova guard Bill Melchionni, with 57 points. Sedlacek had the fourth highest total...
...small cities, but Henry is the only Negro now serving in a community of Springfield's size. By custom, the commissioner who receives the greatest popular vote in the nonpartisan popular election is named to the largely honorary post of mayor. Henry, a Republican, was the top vote getter last November after the Springfield Sun editorialized that he "began public service as Springfield's first Negro city commissioner and long since proved himself everyone's commissioner...
...name that stands out is Jean Marchand, 47, who will head Pearson's proposed Ministry of Manpower, dealing with everything from citizenship and immigration to employment. An able Quebec labor leader and attractive vote getter, he is the first French Canadian in years to hold a Cabinet post with real economic power and is obviously a man in whom Pearson sees possibilities...
...estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because all choices seem meaningless. Ultimately, meaninglessness infects the film as a whole, and Indifference is remarkable only for Steiger's highly concentrated performance as a doughy but vigorous go-getter whose lechery lends an acetylene brilliance to several otherwise dismal scenes...
...Constables are also in cahoots with some magistrates to use the courts as a debt-collection agency. To help constables rake in commissions as high as 50%, for example, such magistrates issue arrest warrants for "civil debt"-a result-getter that has been illegal in Pennsylvania since 1842. As soon as he took office in 1961, Magistrate Harry C. Schwartz incorporated the Active Collection Agency with his wife as president and Constable Abraham Siegel as treasurer. Magistrate Schwartz openly welcomes A.C.A. cases-and shares his wife's 50% split of the profits...