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Minister. That he did, compiling a record of 552 wins and only 140 losses in a quarter-century of coaching at U.C.L.A. Over the years "Saint John," as some rival coaches refer to him, has mellowed a bit. He has done away with the mandatory coat-and-tie rule on road trips. Curfews are still enforced, but he does not sit in the hotel lobby as of old to check on stragglers. And he no longer insists on crew cuts. Even so, at the first signs of the shaggy look he will pointedly ask: "Isn't that barbers...
...bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray. So-o-o, we call in an experienced mason, who, by applying a T-square, straightens up our building, or on the other hand we refer to our night editor, who, by using know-how, shifts our words around until our original ideas suddenly blaze forth clearly and distinctly...
...accommodate few more people, and the port city of Haifa (pop. 217,000) is equally crowded. From the Lebanese border town of Nahariya to Ashkelon in the south, Israel's coastline is becoming an urban sprawl much like the Boston-Washington metropolitan corridor. Israeli planners already refer to their emerging mini-Bos-Wash as NASH...
...refer to the Massachusetts Bay Colony statute of 1646. which decreed that if a man had "a stubborn or rebellious son" of at least 16 years of age, he could bring him to the magistrate's court where "such a son shall be put to death." It is interesting to note that this was copied directly from the Old Testament. Of significance is the fact that this early Hebrew practice recognized the fallibility of parents and left the decision to the elders of the town...
...lately become Peckinpah's ironic pleasure to refer to himself in interviews as a "whore," and, appropriately, The Getaway works on that same kind of disinterested, mechanical level. There are a great many scenes of action and bloodletting, professionally handled and exciting. But the viewer is always aware that he is being manipulated very coolly and cynically...