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Miller broke through the Knight's defense on a 50-yard burst early in the fourth period to revive a sagging Crimson attack, and ended up the team's leading rusher with 191 yards in two games...
...film is directed with great sympathy by three young film makers working out of Cambridge, Mass.: Christopher G. Knight, Robert Jones and James Coyne. Their work is at its straightforward best in depicting the relationship between the Harrises. When Joan meets David at the jail after the high school rally, there is a scene of extraordinary intimacy. David comes smiling out of the station door; Joan and some friends crowd around him. She takes his arm, smiles back at him, and they walk away together. That is all; yet the sequence and her simple gesture express a strong and lasting...
...money. In 1963, he became a cop for the same reasons he uses to persuade potential recruits. "The social potential of the policeman is incredible-self interest merges with public interest. If you dare to think about it," Durk says, "it's your last chance to be a knight errant...
Died. Goodwin J. Knight, 73, Republican Governor of California from 1953 to 1958, and power in state politics; of pneumonia; in Inglewood, Calif. An energetic campaigner, "Goodie" Knight served two terms as Earl Warren's Lieutenant Governor, then succeeded him in office and made his own mark with the voters, winning by a landslide in 1954. Long at odds with the state's conservative wing, Knight blamed Richard Nixon for his defeat in the 1958 senatorial election, and in 1962 made it an open fight in the gubernatorial primary−which went to Nixon...
...author of All on a Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest, the vast estates of Earl Pedernales and Lady Pedernales-"Not," Edelman cautioned, "Lady Lady Bird...