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NEVADA. The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style. With a billing like that from his own publicist, Hecht obviously has problems in his race against Democratic Governor Richard Bryan...
Berry opened the singles draw with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Temple's Chris Jaffert. The junior defeated Penn's Nikus Hecht, 6-4, 6-3, but dropped a tough three-setter to Lubos Kocek of West Virginia...
...Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editors: David J. Barron '89 John J. Murphy '89 City/State Editor: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Sports Editors: Casey J. Lartigue '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Julio R. Varela '90 Photography Editor: Terry R.R. Roopanaraine '90 Business Editor: Elizabeth Weinraub '91 Copy Editor: Brian R. Hecht...
...Hindsight has proven us wrong," said one of the naysayers, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, as if the nation were punishing itself today simply for guessing wrong long ago. Bad guesses are not moral failings, but the sweeping suspension of rights for one racial group certainly is. People were interned if they were only one-eighth Japanese by blood. There were no camps for German Americans, despite real support for Germany and Hitler in the German-American Bund. And no camps were set up for Japanese Americans in Hawaii, where there were plenty of ethnic Japanese but no strong tradition...
...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...