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Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...
...journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...
...FRUSTRATED, mentally," bemoans one of the characters in Passing Strangers, an original musical production by undergraduate Andrew Berger. That is certainly true for the four individuals in this play, who languish under their feelings of alienation. But alienation is only the tip of the emotional iceberg. Although Berger occasionally dips below the surface to reveal his characters' motivations, in the end he leaves only the superficial impression of the iceberg's peak...
...winning basketball teams. And records of 8-18 (Harvard) and 7-11 (Radcliffe) aren't quite what the tournament committees have in mind. Sure the Celtics will eventually be going after yet another flag to flaunt from the Garden rafters but until then Harvard hoop fans will have to languish in their rooms dispassionately watching an endless stream of regional triple headers...
BRITAIN, the industrial world's perennial postwar invalid, continues to languish. Output this year will be a bit below that of 1974, and Common Market experts predict zero growth next year as well. Meanwhile, exports are sluggish and living standards are dropping. Unemployment has passed the politically sensitive level of a million workers and could hit 1.5 million this winter. Prime Minister Wilson's Labor Government can do little to stimulate the economy because inflation, despite price controls, is already roaring along at an annual rate of 27.9%, highest in any major nation...