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...Shelley of Downey, California, is a distant second in the senior men's championships, and behind him is Gordie McKellan from Lake Placid, New York. He won the Easterns two weeks ago. Both Petkevich and Shelley had byes into the Nationals because they placed second and third respectively in last year's championships...
George Edwards is the other New Haven Panther still jailed. The extent of Edwards' participation, according to all testimony so far, is one visit to the Kimbro apartment at the conclusion of the torture session. George Edward's wife attended court almost every day. A large, placid woman, she waited in line with other spectators and matter-of-factly told stories about her 7-month-old baby, born while her husband was in jail, whomhe has been able to see only a few times. She mentioned that she had been told the state has to find something against Edwards after...
Mile. Helene (Stephane Audran) is the attractive schoolmistress in the placid provincial town. She befriends the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) at a wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...
...structure and beauty of ships. In a View of the Harbor of Philadelphia from the Delaware River, Birch shows that he understood even better the element they travel in. Although his seascapes varied -some being stormy and violent-this harbor view is marked by a luminous sky and glassy, placid water...
...country club with its placid hilltop view, a group of El Dorado's most solid citizens reflects the town's bitter confusion about the war. As elsewhere, there is the danger of turning the conflict into a morality play. Honor, freedom, the future of America, say those who echo the President; crime and shame, say the radicals, quoted daily on TV and in the press. Those in the middle who cannot live with either version are increasingly beleaguered. Most people still talk about making a stand against Communism, though they are increasingly unsure whether Viet Nam represents...