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...bottom of a ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible for his wife's suicide...
...Political Assassination." C.C.A.P. Chairman Walter Reuther, whose United Auto Workers bankrolled the two-year-old organization with a $1,000,000 donation, set the critical tone at the outset by saying that the Great Society could not be built with "halfway, halfhearted" measures or by "making appropriations with an eyedropper"-though President Johnson is asking $1.75 billion in anti-poverty appropriations for the next fiscal year. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins warned that the war in Viet Nam must not be al lowed to divert funds from the war on poverty...
...National Committee. He spent the eight Eisenhower years as assistant general counsel for the American Bankers Association and later as an attorney for First National Bank of Chicago. President Kennedy named him comptroller of the currency and gave him orders to start stirring things up. Saxon tripped at the outset by tangling with Bobby Kennedy's antitrust division at the Justice Department-but patched up the quarrel before he endangered his tenure...
...subtle, less scrutable. The pieces are of equal value and the strategy is full of Oriental guile. Using the intersections rather than the squares, players attack at widely separated points, worry less about capturing opponents than establishing outposts that can be used eventually to wall in territory. At the outset, the board is empty. In alternating moves, the weaker player (who uses smooth pieces of black slate) and the higher-rated player (who uses pieces of white clamshell) set down their stones. Once played, a stone remains in place-unless it is surrounded and thus captured, in which case...
With only six men left to play seven matches, Harvard had to forfelt one point at the outset...