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...Eleven short weeks ago, Cook seemed likely to make his mark as the youngest SEC chief ever (he is 36), and one who would carry out the far-reaching stock-market reforms begun by his predecessor, William J. Casey; instead, he will have only the unhappy distinction of the shortest chairmanship in the SEC's 39-year history. His departure leaves a shaken agency that will have difficulty carrying out its role of guiding and policing the nation's financial markets...
...competitors. In an eight-horse field, he lagged slightly after breaking from an outside post position, then failed to make up sufficient ground with a belated stretch drive. "He just didn't have his usual punch," Jockey Ron Turcotte said afterward. Despite the defeat, Secretariat still remains the shortest-priced early betting favorite in Derby history. Last week the odds on Secretariat were...
Striptease is the best and also the shortest of the three plays. For unknown reasons, two strangers suddenly find themselves trapped in a single room, and in between rationalizing their behavior, they obey the directions of a gigantic hand, which gestures to them to remove their clothes. The gimmick alone is clever, and Mrozek, with a fine sense of the dramatic, skillfully brings out the contrast between the feeble human discussions and the powerful silence of the Hand...
...Sandy (Leo Phillips), to marry Jeannie and give her child a name. The actors are all stringently naturalistic, and Director-Writer William Fruet, setting his somber story in a provincial Canadian town during World War II, is scrupulous about details of place. He also takes care with even the shortest scene, the slightest ges ture, and what power Wedding in White possesses draws from the impact of accumulated detail. Beyond some few grace notes of style, though, Wedding in White is a film without subtlety or surprise. Fruet's script is heavy and strident. This oblique anger, mingled with...
...teach G.L.M., but some do not because it is expensive to stock skis in all those different lengths. As a compromise between price and proficiency, many areas are adopting the American Teaching Method. The A.T.M. skiers learn on a single pair of 5-ft. skis, about halfway between the shortest G.L.M. equipment and the 7-ft. skis that experts...