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Winners in the running events are: Mike Buckley of Northeastern in the mile; Mark Lech of Northeastern in the 600 yd. run; Ben Butler in the 40 yd. high hurdles; Mike Hickey of Northeastern in the 1000 yd. run; Jim Flore of Northeastern in the two mile run; Harvard in the mile relay with a time of 3:28.6; and Northeastern in the two mile relay with a time...
White Ring is a complex of four villages (Lech, Zürs, St. Anton and St. Christoph) linked by lifts. Besides visiting all four, serious skiers can sample everything from the vertiginous Kandahar run to the gentle lower Krieger-horn, plus liberal helpings of Gemütlichkelt. Dances get under way in larger hotels at 5 p.m. A week's stay: around...
Part of what makes it all so intriguing is that comparing the various stories has become a kind of historical scrabble. Was Mary's husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it? Or was he a homosexual as the movie has it? (He seems to have been the former.) The popular version of the story, accepted by those raving romantics Schiller and Donizetti, portrays Mary as a high-brogue Joan of Arc and Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. The new versions, sometimes wildly inaccurate in other ways, do at least correct that longstanding...
...question can be taken or left for what it is as long as Friedman sticks to the mimicry of detective-story dialogue, journalism cliches, police-blotter prose, and the series of burlesque lech-skits that give The Dick its basic shape. But when, as he does at the end, Friedman tries to graft existential pur pose onto his low-comedy hero, the ques tion becomes an embarrassment. Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik...
...even where to start. He kept repeating his democratic ideals and desires for economic stability. "Bolivia," he insisted, "must keep particularly close relations with the U.S." He talked about disarming both the peasant militia of Paz Estenssoro and the militant tin min ers of Leftist Juan Lechín to avoid fur ther trouble. Yet he allowed Lechín to grab control of all the country's most important unions, bowed even further by promising the unions joint control with management in running the nationalized tin mines. In the past when the miners had such a voice, they...