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Opposing players, shaken by Tiriac's baleful glare, dubbed him Dracula. Tiriac began the season strongly with a lot of arguing and baiting at away matches but stopped when the fans booed him. No wrestling villain instincts resided in his lamblike breast. Instead, he became more the helpful doubles partner; he and Pat Bostrom won all their early mixed doubles and their wins seemed to be the triumph of good natured cooperation over querulous, fractious competition...
...somewhat foreboding note, also criticized the Pei designers for attempting "to reduce the apparent bulk of their proposal by cladding it in mirrors. This is a device untried on any scale in an urban setting," they warned, "and it may produce unforeseen problems, of appearance, reflected heat and glare...
...scenery passes less quickly. A five-story apartment building looks somber with its dirtencrusted windows and greasy Venetian blinds. Opposite, a group of tenement houses stand in the glare of DuPont's smoke and flames. The passengers waiting on the platform of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond...
...conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. Don Nixon was later followed to the stand by the second brother, Edward C. Nixon, 43, who appeared for the defense. For Nixon family watchers, the cameo roles played by the two brothers were a bonanza. The two men seldom venture into the glare of publicity. Indeed, Don Nixon had tried to beg off testifying because of heart trouble, but Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi ordered him examined by a physician and then decided that he should appear...
...Foreman walked in without the slightest trace of a limp. (He attributed his recovery to prayer.) Score Round 1 in the psychological fight to Foreman. Norton seemed to sense that he had been outmaneuvered. As Rondeau briefed the fighters at mid-ring, Norton carefully avoided Foreman's menacing glare by staring at the canvas...