Word: martha
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...slick spy thriller had been written to order by Russia's famed detective novelist, Julian Semyonov-the Soviet Ian Fleming. Spread over five columns of Izvestiya last week, it had some of the suspense but none of the humor of a James Bond story. The tale began as Martha Peterson, 32, a tall, blonde vice consul in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, drove her car to a deserted street in the Soviet capital. Quickly changing from a white dress to a black outfit that would meld into the shadows, she boarded in rapid succession a bus, a streetcar...
Jaws 2 does have a few things in common with its illustrious forebear. It cost tons of money, is set around Amity (a.k.a. Martha's Vineyard), has a score by John Williams and stars a rather petulant shark. Roy Scheider, looking unaccountably like George C. Scott after a hunger strike, is back as the local police chief, and so are a few members of the Jaws supporting cast (Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer). But the crucial elements of the original have vanished: there is no wit, no genuine terror and no cinematic dazzle. The first Jaws was made...
...third of their total work-study grants in the summer. The new policy has meant that fewer students than last year could get work-study funds this summer, but the number of students who would have to be denied funds was not as great as had been expected. Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, says only a few men and women were turned down for summer funding; 160 men and 60 women will take work-study jobs...
...least one of the honoraries usually goes to a prominent figure in the arts. Dancer Martha Graham and pianist Arthur Rubinstein seem like good bets to pick up parchments...
...poll results corroborate those of a questionnaire distributed last June by the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL), Martha Leape, coordinator of the health careers advisory program at the OCS-OCL, said yesterday...