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Earlier in the season Munro said, "I wish we were the underdog in every game we played." Coach Stevenson is playing that advantage to the hilt at Brown, so much in fact that Munro's wish may be fulfilled...
Warming the Climate. In the past, Trudeau observed, Canada's geographical and economic links to the U.S. have given his country scant percentage of maneuverability in its foreign policy. However, he said pointedly, "it should use that 10% or 20% to the hilt." He defined Canada's position as "one of interrogation." For his part, Nixon was anxious to warm the climate between neighbors that had cooled under two previous Administrations. But he also felt compelled to press tactfully for U.S. defensive security both in this hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that...
...years of service in the upper chamber. Ted Kennedy easily won the job of whip, the No. 2 party role in the Senate-next to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield-and a post whose power, limited as it is, he will probably use to the hilt...
...droves. Bobby Kennedy's entry into the 1968 presidential race, followed by Lyndon Johnson's dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As Abbie notes: "Come on, Bobby said, join the mystery battle against the television machine. Participation mystique. Theater-in-the-streets. He played it to the hilt. And what was worse, Bobby had the money and power to build the stage. We had to steal ours. It was no contest." Worse still, many yippies really liked Bobby. A planned YIP "festival of love" in Chicago, intended as the young party's high point, suddenly seemed impossible...
...nymphomaniac, a male heterosexual virgin, and a whip-toting sadist couple from Westchester who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. Leonard Melfi's "Night" is a moving poem about death. Very vile and not a little perplexing, the plays are acted to the hilt by a cast including Charlotte Rae and Sorell Booke. Theodore Mann directed. At the HENRY MILLER, W. 43rd...