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Some scenes succeed, others dissolve into bathos. The scene in which Michele, the older sister, stabs an ornamented chair with a long pin, effectively foreshadows the knifing scene at the end. When the maids ransack the kitchen, throwing food and smashing plates, they are doing what every girl would love to do and Papatakis achieves his intended portrayal of the normal impulse run wild. Finally, the murder scene, done with brilliant jump-cutting, creates terror before the audience can realize what has happened...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: Les Abysses | 2/23/1966 | See Source »

Sparked by Ed Franquemont's pin, the Harvard wrestling team erased a brief Princeton lead and went on to crush the Tigers 22 to 11 Saturday at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Crush Tigers, 22 to 11, Losing 1 Match | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

...amount of information disclosed by a typical European corporation in its annual report to the stockholders is, by U.S. standards, hardly enough to cover the head of a pin. Final profit or loss figures are given-without explanation about how they were arrived at. Such basic items as true earnings, performance of subsidiaries, executive compensation, method of evaluating assets, and even total sales are treated as top company secrets. As one result, prospective European investors, having little more to go on than intuition, are leary about sinking their savings into stocks. This fact has contributed to the generally depressed state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Opening the Books | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard wrestlers will be facing stiff matches. Howie Henjyoji wrestles Charlie Dameron of Springfield at 123, and Paul Padlak meets the Maroons' John Doss at 160. Chris Wickens and Jeff Grant, at 167 and 177 for the Crimson, take on Fred Peraino and Joe Cerra. Padlak scored the only pin against Columbia on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Maroon Squad Hosts Matmen Tonight | 2/16/1966 | See Source »

Then the powerful middle of the Harvard lineup put the match away. First, the Crimson's Ed Franquemont downed Larry Nelson, 6 to 2, at 152. Sophomore Paul Padlak, at 160 for Harvard record- the Crimson's sole pin. It came against Gordon Norguay at 4:34 of the second period...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Wrestlers Down Columbia, 24-13; Padlak Breezes | 2/14/1966 | See Source »

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