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...France had to take rushed measures to prop it up. Before it began to recover last week, the mark slumped to a low of 51.2? against the dollar, a prolonged slide from its high of 58.8? last January. It was also slipping against such onetime weaklings as the British pound, the French franc and even the Italian lira...
...seem to emanate from hell's zoo. The camera muscles into the action, peering from above, from below, from the combatant's point of view, panning 360° as a doomed fighter spins toward the canvas. Smoke, sweat, flesh and blood become Jackson Pollock abstractions as they pound home the essential blood lust of those sweet sciences, prizefighting and moviemaking...
...investigators have temporarily vacated, an elderly and a youthful Home Office bureaucrat deliver monologues to each other that epitomize stereotypical visions of England and America. The break is a welcome one. Keith Rogal as Bernard-- the senescent and near-deaf senior officer whose droning, endless tale of a five-pound bet with Lloyd George is by far the evening's funniest sequence-- turns hesitation into a form of comic torture, and uses stock mannerisms of old age to excellent effect...
...Bruins and a co-championship in the family looked mighty fine... Harvard seniors got a little deja vu after Penn's opening two scores. Two years ago, the Quakers went up 13-0 in the first quarter before Harvard came on to win 17-13... Two-hundred-fifty pound linemen don't scare them, but Callinan and center John Francis hate airplanes and suffered during the flight home...
...passionate fisherman and a passionate taxonomist, and so his collected works include Catalogue of Books on Angling, including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, Etc. Once when he caught a seven-pound trout, he sent it to his friend and whist partner James Russell Lowell, and Lowell rewarded him (and the trout) with some forellean verses that began...