Word: roger
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...hundred freshmen automatically qualify for the five courses, said Roger Rosenblatt, acting director of expository writing, but 40 upperclassmen have also made application...
Injuries have played a part, of course. Pitcher Whitey Ford underwent surgery last month for a blocked artery in his shoulder. Shortstop Ruben Amaro tore his knee ligaments in the first week of the season. Mickey Mantle has missed 42 games with assorted aches and pains, and Roger Maris has been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant...
Only Hope. The other movies at Venice left everything in ashes without turning anything on fire. From Germany, from France, from Italy, from India, even from sentimental old Mother Russia, came long, unarguable movie testaments to the dreariness of it all. La Curée, Roger Vadim's version of Zola's Alexandre, impressed most critics as little more than a soap bubble around his wife Jane Fonda. The U.S., displaying more invention than intelligence, came up with Chappaqua, a booze-and-drug Upanishad displaying Allen Ginsberg, the poor man's Whitman. The festival scene had become...
Feeling Foxed. Remembering Fowler's words, many businessmen felt foxed last week when President Johnson cited "an exaggerated boom in business investment" and included a 16-month suspension of the credit among his emergency anti-inflationary measures. "A mistaken choice of remedies," said U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough...
...scene? For the first time since The Wild One (1954), Hollywood has moved in for a closeup of the big barbaric motorcycle gangs of Southern California. Directed by Laslo Benedek, The Wild One was a sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...