Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each of the three Democrats is convinced that he can defeat New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("the rich man's millionaire," in Samuels' phrase) in his bid for a third term in November. One of their problems is that New York has no primary for statewide office. The nominee is picked by party convention-a tidy arrangement if a party is united and well organized, a shambles if it is not. In New York, it is not. The Democrats are still hurting from the feuding and weak tickets that marked their 1958 and 1962 conventions...
...flaws. The scenes between the agonized Loman sons-alternately hating and loving the man who had filled them full of ballooning, worthless dreams-were edgy rather than sharp. And television's code blunted many of the play's sharpest lines (even "By God, I was rich" became "By George, I was rich"), needlessly sacrificing Miller's most formidable faculty: language...
Harvard coach Norm Shepard has nominated sophomore hurler Bob Lincoln to face M.I.T. The Engineers have a trio of .300 hitters in Jeff Altman, Rich Young, and Mike Ryba, but Lincoln should be able to overpower them along with the rest of the lineup...
...cavalrymen surrounded three Red regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped put up a good fight-but reluctantly (see following story). The Reds were saving their strength for the monsoon, waiting for the rain-rich thunderheads that hamper American air strikes. And they were doing a lot of their waiting in the sanctuary of neighboring, "neutral" Cambodia...
MENFREYA IN THE MORNING by Victoria Holt. 256 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. Britain's Holt is one of the best-known and most successful Gothic storytellers (Mistress of Mellyn, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin). This book is about Harriet Delvaney, a poor little rich girl who is afflicted with a limp and is despised by her father because her mother died at her birth. She marries Bevil Menfrey, the handsome, tawny-haired scion of a high-spirited but impoverished family, and goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy...