Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Picker '67 has twisted this familiar plot and given it something of a new ending. Her stranger, Sophia, has become engaged to the family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note...
Beautiful strangers are expected to take control of situations like this. Sophia's presence disconcerts the mother, excites Sam and the grandmother to curiosity, and enraptures George. He senses a kindred spirit. When he hears that her younger brother is organizing theatres in Mississippi, he runs away from home and heads down South to prove himself...
Since it is a considerably more natural instinct, at least for politicians in an election year, to resist cuts in domestic spending, Shriver will doubtless get his $1.75 billion. As Democratic Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida observed, "We used to say we don't want any of that tainted federal money. Now we say 'tain't enough...
...charters, law enforcement and other great areas of state concern must be divorced from shoddy machine politics." Though his mammoth city has headaches enough of its own, the mayor's indictment was aimed at the Democratic administration in Sacramento. Thus, after years of feuding with Governor Pat Brown, Sam Yorty announced last week that he would challenge him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in June...
...other events, the Crimson will settler for lower places. Navy sophomore Robert Donahue, who has run a 0:06.1 and owns a victory over Fordham great Sam Perry, looks like a sure winner. But Wayne Anderson, the defending champion in the event, may take the second...