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...showdown with the rest of the top ten begins next weekend when 17 teams vie for the Boston Dinghy Club Cup, out of the MIT boathouse. The Crimson squad will be without the services of All-American Terry Neff, who found out that St. Petersburg is nicer this time of year than Cambridge...
...Democratic convention with the largest bloc of delegates. Wallace matched his 1972 margins only in the rural, sparsely populated Florida panhandle, close to the Alabama and Georgia piney woods. Carter won his largest margins, as did Ford on the Republican side, in the populous midsection of Florida, including St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Daytona Beach...
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Local Suckers. Two of the mayor's more idiotic henchmen report they have discovered the government inspector, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlyestakov (Austin Pendleton), living incognito in a local hotel. This chap is actually an impecunious government clerk from St. Petersburg, but once he appears, sycophancy reigns supreme. Khlyestakov is a fop with the instincts of P.T. Barnum. He rooks the local suckers of all their ready cash, comes close to seducing the mayor's wife (Sloane Shelton) and daughter (Erin Ozker) and then blows town. Like the tolling of the bell of doom, a resplendent attaché arrives from...
Anna Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...