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...other characters in Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo...
...come with a variety of names: Storm-Belle, Birdcage, Dome and Giant are some of them. All of them are selling out (at $8 and $9). At Bloomingdale's department store in Manhattan, 200 bubble-tops went in just one cloudy morning last week. It was almost a letdown when the sun came...
Harvard's season has been a bit of a letdown, too. But an NCAA official has reportedly told the Crimson that it has an outside shot at an at-large invitation to the NCAA championships if it does well enough against Yale. This appears to be a remote possibility. If Harvard is invited it will be one of three lvy teams since Brown and Cornell have qualified...
...victory will without a doubt leave the Middies seeded first in Saturday's Eastern Sprint Championships at Worcester. The winning crew, which averaged 6'3", 188 pounds, will now have to avoid a mental letdown before its sprint rematch...
When he became secretary-general of France's Radical Party more than a year ago, Politician-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber promised to lead the decaying organization to victory in the 1971 municipal elections. He campaigned lustily; the Radicals lost overwhelmingly. In the wake of that letdown, J.J. S.S. expressed a somewhat disdainful attitude toward the legislative process in France. "I don't have the right," he said recently, "to waste my time and the money of my electors by attending the National Assembly." To avoid a wrenching showdown within the party, Servan-Schreiber last week took what...