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Harvard was playing without the services of 6-5 center Barry Williams, who remained in Cambridge to take law boards today. Without him, Harvard's defense and rebounding was thoroughly inept. His replacement, Lynn Bennion, was completely unable to contain Cornell's Steve Cram and the 6-7 center poured in 33 points...
Samuel Haubold discusses "Two Constitutional Aspects of Psychopath Legislation:" vagueness and privilege against self-incrimination. It seems that states incarcerate people for psychological reasons, while denying them normal court procedure and using criteria which psychiatrists maintain are both meaningless and inept...
...Department Store. It is Dec. 24 at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Into the throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding...
...actually Blenheim Palace, where much of the filming took place, marking a ruinous setback to the dignity of Britain's stately homes. Hollywood Writer-Director Andrew Stone's handiwork, billed as a black comedy, hues to the popular misnomer for any movie that dares to flaunt some inept waggery or mishandle a corpse. Secret obviously deserves a description of another color. "Green-sickly" might...
...former resident of New York City, I take exception to the view that Lindsay's election signals a comeback for the Republican Party from the disaster of 1964. The man Mr. Lindsay ran against was a product of the corrupt, inept and hopeless Democratic organization that has left the city in the stagnant position it finds itself in today. A stronger Democratic candidate certainly would have sent J.V.L. scurrying back to Congress...