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...evening's end, the curtain calls went on for 18½ minutes. Out in the audience, opera-loving Comedian Danny Kaye let out several ear-piercing whistles and called for a speech. Confetti and roses floated down from the upper tiers; several bouquets came sailing across the orchestra pit. Sills fielded one with her right hand, then separated it and gave half to her co-star Shirley Verrett...
Higginson said he feels the varsity should shave about four to six seconds off Saturday's time to establish themselves as a good crew. Competition next Saturday for the Biglin Bowl will pit the Crimson against one of the premier spollers of the year, the Technicians from downstream, Dartmouth will also be on hand for the 11 a.m. race...
...alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable) chased at the end to a cemetery, the Man Writhing at the bottom of an open deepsunk grave in agony while a helicopter hovers above training high-powered rifles at him helpless in the pit, shooting him full of holes...
...columns he was preaching only to those already converted. His aloof, critical onlooker's ethic, valid professionally, no longer could sustain his life. As he himself says, in the third-person prose that achieves objectivity. "His sense of self had finally required of him that he go into the pit." And once having seen the hostages huddled in their ring and having heard the impassioned speeches of the inmates, knowing that the guns ringing in Attica were ready to settle the matter in blood, Wicker became a human being first and a journalist second...
...Bruins led, 2-0, early in the second period, but Chicago rallied to tie the game on goals by Pit Martin and Stan Mikita. Wayne Cashman then began the Boston comeback by converting a Bobby Orr rebound in the third period Subsequent goals by Glenn Sheppard. Terry O'Reilly and Dave Forbes completed the Bruin outburst...