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...Saturday afternoon Sansone diligently worked the floor--greeting, chatting and pleading with delegates--as the convention dealt with the race for lieutenant governor. The eventual victor of that seven-way, five-ballot, seven-hour battle was Evelyn Murphy, a former state secretary of environmental affairs. But ironically, Murphy's triumph helped seal her fellow female's fate at the convention. The reason in part for Sansone's drubbing, according to state political pundits: the convention wasn't yet comfortable endorsing two women for the same ticket...
System or chaos, Coppola is never dull. Two years ago, he had New York cinephiles atwitter with his presentation of the seven-hour Our Hitler. Last January he put a refurbished version of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon into the Music Hall, and played host to not just a celebrity party but an exhilarating film experience. After the Napoleon coup, movie wags were wondering which charismatic dictator Coppola would bring to New York in early 1982. Now they know. Frederic Forrest may be romancing Nastassia Kinski onscreen, but center stage will again be occupied...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard was originally scheduled to play Canada's Queen's College, but the Ontario side suffered injuries in a tournament last weekend and decided against making the seven-hour trip...Crimson players hoped the win would help them in their bid to arrange a match with the Boston "A" side. New England's champion club team...
...refused to leave his stranded vessel to talk to the Swedes. Not until Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko allowed Gushin to cooperate did the commander relent. The skipper and his navigation officer emerged, asked for and were allowed permission to shower, and then settled down to claim during a seven-hour interrogation that they had hit the reef because their compass had failed...
...spring of '57, Haster and "Babe" Simourian and the other guys on the baseball team took a seven-hour ride to Princeton's Bedford Field. The Tigers had a good squad, and this day they had their pitching ace, John Finnegan, on the mound...