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More than 75 students are expected to test their running prowess in the intramural cross country meet this afternoon. The harriers will start at the Dillon field House at 4 p.m. and run inside the iron fence around the athletic fields for about two miles...
...Ideals. Like his boss, Moyers tempers his ideals with hard-headed pragmatism. Last March, addressing a group of Peace Corpsmen, he urged them to "pursue the ideals of a Joan of Arc with the political prowess of an Adam Clayton Powell. Whatever you say about Joan, her purpose was noble. And whatever you say about Adam, his politics is effective." The word effective crops up repeatedly in bis conversation. "There is no substitute for the effective use of political skills to advance the cause of a great idea," he argues. "Ideas are great arrows, but there...
...hawk-nosed men still rode off sidesaddle on their donkeys to fight vendettas. Their wives still milked the native sheep to produce a cheese with the clout and consistency of a plastic bomb. The sun still sank blood-red behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night, and walls proclaimed the scrawled slogan: "Corsica for the Corsicans!" By last week, the Corsican question...
...Latin America's Roman Catholic tradition, which opposes any means of family regulation except the rhythm method. Unfortunately, that form of birth control has proved far too sophisticated for Latin America's widely uneducated masses. Another factor is machismo, a he-man complex that makes sexual prowess and large families-in or out of wedlock-a matter of male pride. In some areas of Latin America, a man who has fathered only five or six children may be regarded by his friends as something of a laggard, if not bordering on impotence. Many women resort to abortion...
...deserves the faintest applause for his fussy posturing as a Parisian fashion editor. He is supposedly irresistible to women, and they to him. So he delays marrying a determined fraülein (Romy Schneider), consults a sex-crazed Viennese analyst (Peter Sellers), and calls forth memories of his sexual prowess, filmed appropriately in dull blue-grey hues. When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends by parachute (Ursula Andress). Sellers dresses up his cliche role with...