Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity wasn't as fortunate. John Dockery, John Parker, and Mike Hauck, handed anchor man Lynch a slight lead over Holy Cross. But Crusader anchor man Bob Credle is probably the best middle-distance man in New England; despite a 50.6 leg by Lynch, Credle charged past him in the last 10 yards to win a photo finish. The timers of the race gave Harvard a faster time than Holy Cross, but the finish judges saw it differently...
Naturally their latest offensive came as Premier Huong endeavored once again to put back together his Humpty-Dumpty regime. Last week Huong installed four military officers in his Cabinet in an effort to improve relations with the brass and discourage more coups. There was a slight delay. Although Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu waited in the palace on the appointed day, the four failed to show up because Air Force Boss Nguyen Cao Ky had last-minute second thoughts about giving up his command for his Cabinet assignment-Minister of Youth and Sports. Finally Ky reluctantly agreed...
...conversation, shy, slight Ornette Coleman sounds more like a librarian than a revolutionary. But not when he breathes into a saxophone. No sooner had he arrived unheralded in Manhattan in late 1959 than he blew up a typhoon of controversy such as the jazz world had not known since the mid-'40s when now-legendary Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker was blasting out new musical horizons...
...Tartuffe. It is appropriate, if amazing, to say that the ham in the actor reveals the pig in mankind. Sparing no excess of speech, gesture or mien, he performs a surrealistic wedding dance of malice and humor. Almost equal praise accrues to Richard Wilbur, the poet. Despite a slight trace of melodic monotony, his springy, intelligent couplets turn Molière's French into speakably idiomatic English...
Died. Jeanette MacDonald, 57, Hollywood's reigning soprano in the 1930s and early '40s, who teamed with Nelson Eddy to make eight slight, sweet, surefire musicals (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie), becoming one of MGM's biggest drawing cards, later embarking on a second, modestly successful career as a touring concert singer, all the while remaining happily married, since 1937, to Actor Gene Raymond; of a heart attack; in Houston...