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Radcliffe, loser only to Princeton in the season's first three races, convincingly bounced back last weekend, overcoming blustery conditions and a surprisingly strong UMass challenge to outdistance the rest of the six-team field with a six-second win in eights competition on the Charles. Radcliffe finished with a 3:55 clocking...
...aside for off hours and cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has. I think that this nostalgia sometimes gets in her way, confused her sense signals. When she calls the gangling, gifted loser Pookie Adams (of A Sterile Cuckoo) "a resonant American archetype," I get the feeling that she has gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting so hard at Hollywood for so long has made her desperate for something to like. So she lingers over this plain wallflower...
...popular Independents, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy, seem assured of re-election. Owens, who is certain to lose his CCA endorsement, and Frank H. Duehay '55 appear in trouble. Donald Fantini, an Independent member of the School Committee and an ardent Frisoli supporter, Leonard Russell, a three-time loser who trailed Duehay by only 36 votes the last time around, and Dom Christofaro of Cambridgeport should prove the strongest challengers...
...been sounding a different note. By the time he arrives this week in San Clemente, Calif., to begin a six-day visit to the U.S., the man who has personally benefited most from a decade of American involvement in Indochina will have completed a remarkable transformation from a sore loser into a happy, confident winner...
...every big winner, though, there is a big loser-and a dozen iffy investments. Narragansett Capital, the nation's largest publicly owned S.B.I.C., has lost $1,081,000 bankrolling Sam Snead All American Golf, Inc. "A venture capitalist looks for a return of ten times his original investment," says Harlan Anderson, head of Anderson Investment Co. in New Canaan, Conn., "but you're lucky if you get that kind of return in one case out of ten, so it evens out." And some venture capitalists go bust along with the businesses they buy into; 400-odd S.B.I.C.s have...