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Marion said that there is a big difference between this year's title-contending team and last year's talent-laden squad that finished last in the Ivies. "This year we have no prima donnas," Marion said...
Theoretically, extradition is a straightforward business. The U.S. has bilateral treaties on the subject with 81 nations; in general, they hold that when one country provides prima-facie evidence that the wanted man committed a crime, the other country will hand him over. Bahamian Magistrate Emmanuel Osadebay decided that the U.S. had not made a prima-facie case against Vesco before him. While the principle seems simple, Vesco's situation is only one more example of the maddening difficulties, tricky technicalities and extra-legal power plays that characterize some of the 45 or so extradition requests that...
That is a prima-facie assumption unless proven to the contrary...
However, Marion believes that because of the team's inexperience they will try to put much more into their effort. He said that nobody is a "prima donna" on this year's team, and that all the fencers are very team conscious...
...popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called the twist." Now Chubby is doing a little thing called hawking...