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Winthrop House senior Paul "Red" Casey pounded out a unanimous decision over Hector Lopez last night to win the Greater Lowell novice welterweight Golden Gloves championship...
...alone. By force of will and imagination, Annie has kept her husband Hector (Cronyn) around for company...
Dead some five years, he is a most corporeal and cantankerous ghost. Hector has not gone gently into the eternal night. He says at one point: "I'm gonna live jus' as long as I see anybody else alivin...
Carradine not only has an ingratiating singing voice, but brings poignance to the unintended rupture of father and son. For Hector, Dillard's preference for guitar playing to farming the land of his daddy and granddaddy is a betrayal, a pain oddly mixed with pride. The old man's reaction is akin to the feelings of an immigrant father who sends a son to college to learn a language and a culture that the two may never share. This blood gap has never been treated more sensitively in an American play...
Carter had used his aide Hamilton Jordan to work with two secret emissaries, Argentine Businessman Hector Villalon and French Lawyer Christian Bourguet, in conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that control of the hostages be transferred from their militant captors to his government. After the rescue attempt, little progress was made until Algerian diplomats agreed to serve as official intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Through this channel, complex legal questions involving the disposition of the frozen Iranian assets were...