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City Manager James L. Sullivan, Justin Gray, his assistant for Community Development, and City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes flew down to Washington, D.C. yesterday morning for a meeting with Massachusetts congressmen and senators on the alleged blackmail by the two Federal agencies. Gray reported last week that HUD had threatened to cut off funds for housing projects unless the City agreed to state and Federal proposals on the Inner Belt and the Route 2 extension...
...second sequence of l'Atalante is typical in this romance, which unites the grotesque and the beautiful in extraordinary poetry. The great majority of romantic works require middle or upper class milieux to treat themes of love, estrangement, longing, and reunion. Jean Vigo's last film finds them inseparable from its proletarian setting. L'Atalante's style is, in fact, so strange and yet so integrated that one must look in his earlier Zero de Conduite (1933) for its sources...
...visual style of l'Atalante is no less cold. The clear way Vigo composes its frames, lights its sets for black-white contrast, and angles his camera on them stylizes the film as strikingly as Zero. But l'Atalante's dramatic structure progressively reveals the secrets of its very full characters. Who could imagine, for example, feeling deeply sympathetic toward the spirit, let alone the form, of Michel Simon (of Botudu)? Yet Vigo puts him in places and relations to other characters and to the camera, which bring us closer and closer to him. Finally the wife goes into...
Ugly Colt. The horse that is expected to be hot on those well-turned hoofs is Top Knight, a 2-to-l contender who is shorter on looks but longer on earnings. Last season's top two-year-old, he has won seven times in 13 starts for total winnings of $511,921. Though he has faltered in a few races, Top Knight has won impressively against a far better class of competition than Majestic Prince has faced. In his last outing at Gulfstream Park, Top Knight won by five lengths in a field that included four Derby contenders...
...strictly a match race. There have been Big Two Derbies before, such as Candy Spots v. No Robbery in 1963, and Damascus v. Ruken in 1967. None of those favorites won. This year, at least half a dozen outsiders could make history repeat itself, including Dike, a 6-to-l shot by virtue of his victory in the $110,900 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and Arts and Letters, who bested Top Knight during the winter season...