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Cram also snared 19 rebounds, and paced Cornell to a 59-36 advantage in that department. Harvard was able to grab only seven offensive rebounds during the contest; Cornell...
...collection of letters can be a grab bag-or a distinguished book. Sometimes the grab-bag approach results in your flaying the editor. Why not, then, celebrate the impeccable, imaginative editing that has produced Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters [Jan. 21]? Here the art of editing included the locating, sorting, choosing from and annotating the extant correspondence of history's most prolific letter writer, and creating a brilliant epistolary biography. Dan Laurence deserved more than merely having his name printed (in reduced type) with the descriptive matter at the head of your review...
...collection has not always had so tranquil a home. In 1959 l'affaire Lacaze broke, filling headlines for weeks with accusations between Domenica and her adopted son Paulo, who said that her brother, Jean Lacaze, president of the Walter mines, tried to murder him to grab his inheritance. In 1961 the case was dismissed on grounds of insufficient evidence. Even last week Domenica preferred obscurity, not attending the exhibition's formal opening. Said she: "These paintings were made by artists whom Paul Guillaume chose because he believed in their genius. They belong first of all to those...
...ring of fire." The voice last week was Peking's, speaking through its puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent, the Soviets gloated over their new 20-year mutual assistance, friendship and cooperation treaty with Outer...
This was a grab bag within a grab bag. Among other things, the President called for 1) a Highway Safety Act to cut down on traffic deaths, 2) a plan to "rebuild entire sections and neighborhoods" in some U.S. cities as well as "stimulate and reward planning for the growth of entire metropolitan areas," 3) an end to pollution of rivers, 4) an attack on "crime and lawlessness" through a federal program to "modernize and strengthen local police forces," 5) a bill requiring honest labels on packages, 6) a program demanding that all interest and credit charges be fully revealed...