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DIED. Robert Aldrich, 65, film director whose works of macabre-to-macho violence included the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the Burt Reynolds gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...
...Yale team has ever entered. The Game with a record so terrible--1-8 overall and 1-5 in the league. If the underdog Bulldogs can't pull off a shocker this afternoon, they will go down in history as the single worst Eli team ever...
Eestatic fans tore down the goal posts after Don Allard '83 led the Harvard football team to a Crimson series-high 45 points in The 99th Game last year at the Stadium. The 45-7 Harvard rout combined with Cornell's 31-0 shocker over Penn left the Crimson, the Quakers and the Big Green of Dartmouth in a three-way tie for the Ivy title...
Then came another shocker, one of far greater significance. At 2:27 a.m. on Sunday, Reagan was awakened with the tragic news of the bombing of American and French military quarters in Beirut. The casualties jolted him. He knew he had to get back to Washington...
...something of a shocker last month when Media Critic Hodding Carter opened an inquiry on public television into the subject by describing Wallace as a central witness who "was not available to our cameras." Meaning that Wallace dishes it out, but can't take it? That set off another miniround of acrimony. Wallace concedes that CBS brass for a long time had shielded him and his colleagues from the press until there was what Wallace calls a "free the slaves" movement at CBS. That gave Wallace a chance to speak for himself, and he was ready to. By that...