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...appear on the talk shows. Wiggen is to the fictional Mammoths what Tom Seaver is to the real-life Mets-an ace pitcher with all the right media moves who spends much of his time peddling insurance policies indiscriminately to teammates and opponents alike. The only quirk in his character is his friendship with simple old Bruce...
...only now becoming clear, and his Administration gave law-enforcement authorities new access to private lives. McGovern, for his part, had considerable difficulty in appealing to the Democrats' traditional liberal constituency, and may yet be viewed as the forerunner of some genuinely new politics-or merely as a quirk...
...presages decay, and a satanic barber who rouges the hero's face for his final and failing encounter with Tadzio. All are emanations of death, and all are sung with a consummate leaven of evil power by another Britten regular, Bass-Baritone John Shirley-Quirk...
...middle and long distance runners. Besides Moore, Oxford's Phil Lewis edged Bill McLeod of Yale in the 880 by .9 seconds, finishing in 1:57.8. And in the supposed feature race of the day Julian Goater won the mile with a 4:13.0, .9 seconds over John Quirk. Favorite Robert Steele finished a dismal fourth. Oxford-Cambridge also won the 440 and the 440-yard hurdles...
...best race of the day should be the mile in which Oxford's Robert Steele will take on Harvard's John Quirk and John Hexem of Yale. Steele, who won the 1500 meter event in 1971, has a best mile time of 4:04. Quirk has gone 4:04.4 and Hexem has done a 4:05.5. The meet record of 4:03.4 and the Stadium standard of 4:04.2 seem in jeopardy...