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Mike Graae, a senior who saw little action in the past two years, replaced injured Crimson captain Tom Gilmore at 137 and tied Neil Thompson 11 to 11 in a helter-skelter brawl. Phil Emmi, himself a substitute for Howie Durfee at 145, lost 5 to 3 to F&M's Jim Clair on riding time...
Since Sept. 28 when Fidel Castro opened the gates for Cubans who wanted out of his Communist dictatorship, some 3,000 refugees have come streaming helter-skelter across the storm-tossed Florida Straits in everything from 110-ft. cruisers to leaky outboards. Last week the U.S. and Cuba were finally close to a formal agreement that will guarantee the "safe and orderly exodus" that the U.S. has been seeking from the first. In Havana, Swiss Ambassador Emil Stadelhofer spent more than seven hours talking to Castro, including one long session in a suburban pizzeria. Stadelhofer then reported that the Cuban...
...narrated, among others, by John Gielgud and Irene Worth, begins: "Twenty-four million people ... 12 million illiterate . . . half of Spain is owned by 20,000 people." Scenes of old farmers and young boys, clumsily drilling in work clothes, grinning with hope as they go to the front, running helter-skelter into battle, are intercut with shots of Franco's disciplined soldiers and Hitler's crack Condor Legion. At war's end, boys and grizzled men are marched off by the victorious Nationalists to be shot, and the sound track quotes French Novelist Georges Bernanos: "They seized them...
...Writer Waterhouse has done his real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in the strange rag-and-bone shop of the human heart...
Even the war helped Bill Pereira along. He became a civilian camouflage expert for the Army, and again and again he flew up and down the coast from Canada to Mexico. "I got a view then of the tragedies of helter-skelter planning, of the impossible traffic, the sprawling disorganization," he says. The plans of the cities were turned over to him, and "suddenly there I was staring at the veins and arteries of our cities, looking for the flaws, counting the mistakes...