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...John Mulvey, secretary of S.B.S., charges that the British government has "no overall policy or concept of what they should be doing in supporting science." S.B.S. claims an added $155 million is needed next year for government research expenditures just to prevent a continuing decline in research support. Meanwhile, many young scholars keep coming to the U.S., and few see any reason to return home. Says Whaley: "A lot of things would have to change professionally for me to go back...
...gums with crooked sticks. Lately the perception of hockey as iced-over roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer's" life in his new memoirs, and the Los Angeles Kings' Paul Mulvey refusing to answer his coach's call to fight. Onto this thin ice skates Gretzky...
...aristocratic homosexual cruiser who solicits a cop. Or a kid so simple that he sets himself up for a drug rap. Kennedy's friends and co-workers are equally indelible: a colleague with whom he shares an addiction to the Red Sox, a gabby investigator named Bad Eye Mulvey, and a weary cop who specializes in the genealogy...
...like Borge to share a stage, but he can be marvelously droll in bickering with the competition. Over his squirming body, he permits the silky-tongued Marylyn Mulvey to sing "Caro nome"-between his mischievous interruptions. Several times he tartly forbids her to touch the piano. Sopranos bend pianos, he tells the audience, by leaning against them. At one point he confides that the singular of Portuguese is Portugoose. For the singular Borge there is no known plural. - T.E.K...
Prosecutor Arnold Markle quickly asserted that the state wanted a retrial. Mulvey turned him down, ruling: "With the massive publicity attendant upon the trial just completed, I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts which this court, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or endure." He went on to explain that the hung jury, and the fact that Mrs. Huggins had been confined "for more than two years" and Seale "for at least that amount of time," had been important factors in his decision...