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...Last week, still practicing what he prescribes, the wiry Dr. White, 75, led 69 other Massachusetts bicycle buffs on a 16-mile spin through Amherst and South Hadley. Though his wife Ina, 59, fell out after eight miles with a defective bike, White himself finished his health-on-wheels grind still breathing easy, reassuringly told a world of guilt and angina: "There's no reason a man should not be active until he's 100. You don't need tranquilizers if you get enough exercise...
Julie Harris brings an entire patois of peasant gestures to her role, including a session of silently mouthing something like the Marseillaise when the wheels of justice grind too slowly. Even when the script asks to be played by leer, her gamin charm turns it into innocent merriment, as when she mimics her active lover: "He'd just tear and rip every which way, and I hate sewing." But there are always traces of the Harris poignance, a little girl lost and a trifle afraid, waking up in beds she never made...
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...trying to let the men know," said Flynn, "that society has not thrown them away. We're student volunteers, and our men know it; we have no axe to grind. We're doing the job because we want to, and in this lies our real value to the patients...
...Breathers." At Purdue, traditional "spoiler" of the Big Ten, dreams of roses are particularly heady: the Boilermakers have never made the trip. This year hard-bitten Coach Jack Mollenkopf finally has the horses to make his grind-it-out, straight-T offense work. A 19-6 victor over scrappy Miami of Ohio last week, Purdue begins its Big Ten schedule this week with Michigan...