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...Harvard University lightweight crew, the only American entry to reach the finals, continued its undefeated skein by winning the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, England on July...
...owner dead. A heart attack, obviously. But was it? Why are mother, son and daughter so rudely anxious to have the judge leave? Why are they so secretive, so oddly lacking in true grief? Combining the technique of the detective story with Dostoevskian insights, Author Witold Gombrowicz unravels a skein of conflicting family emotions and so clears the way to a final tragedy that is as terrible as it is inevitable. A slip anywhere would have undone the entire story. There are no slips...
Youthful (31) Novelist Cicellis unravels this labyrinthine plot-skein with sure and steady hand. Her prose is as light-intoxicated as the air of her native Greece, 3ut her vision of life has a dark, existential Dathos. The book's title is inspired by an image from the radio studio-ten seconds to air time-and it implies that all of life s an absurd, hectic, fragmentary rehearsal :or living that paradoxically ends just at the moment that a man thinks himself ready to begin...
...with Tommy Lanphier: "I think it is going to be a long, long time before we have what I consider dependable, reliable [ballistic] missiles . . . They are intricate beyond human belief." Also beyond belief, according to Kindelberger, is the state of the Pentagon. "It reminds me," said he, "of a skein of yarn with which the cat has been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another...
Everyone got into the act last night as the Crimson varsity basketball team smashed Northeastern, 102 to 71, to extend its undefeated skein to six and to establish a new team scoring record. The team opens its Ivy League season...