Word: petered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, and Charles Laughton star in the film about pagan Rome, Spartacus (1960). The second half is shown on Sunday Night Movie...
...years past, Harvard's strong suit lies in the Alpine events. Never, however, has the Crimson squad enjoyed such a wealth of top competitors. Captain Peter Carter, his younger brother Larry, Willie Draper and sophomores Alan Watson and Jay O'Rear provide a solid nucleus of racing talent. Rated by coach Dick Friedrichs as "the best in the East," Harvard's Alpine team might even topple Denver...
ALEXANDER POPE, by Peter Quennell. A lucid biography of the great 18th-century poet, a proud and petulant man who used words as sticks and stones in his savage satires...
...VALACHI PAPERS, by Peter Maas, recounts one man's career in the Mafia. The tale is made all the more fascinating by the author's observation: "If the Cosa Nostra's illegal profits were reported, the country could meet its present obligations with a 10% tax reduction instead of a 10% surcharge increase...
Assassin Types. Who are the skyjackers? Most are either criminals on the lam or men who are emotionally disturbed in one way or another. Dr. Peter Siegel, the FAA's air surgeon, has made a study of the scant available data and formulated what he calls the "skyjackers' syndrome": the skyjacker believes that he can prove himself a decisive, effective human being by taking control of a plane, its crew and passengers, and commanding it to go to Cuba...