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...powerful Green, meanwhile, pressured the Radcliffe defense with a relentless attack the entire game. Only the stalwart efforts of Nancy Sato, Ann Dupuis, and Cha-Nan Tang, who was moved to the back line from her familiar center forward position, kept the score at a respectable 2-0 during the first half...
Feliciano, a former high school All-American, led the scoring with five goals. George Magalack chipped in with two goals, and was a stalwart on defense...
Gwynne's Big Daddy is a man of cutting cruelty, but he lacks the roguish animal magnetism of Burl Ives in the 1955 original. Dullea is much too nerveless as Brick; his crutch upstages him. Stalwart Kate Reid rates a special citation for her earthy, grieving, raging Big Mama. But it is Elizabeth Ashley, purring, clawing, fighting for her man, who gives the play a mesmeric, electrifying intensity. ∎ T.E.K...
...selection of Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush as chief of the U.S. mission in Peking, and Presidential Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rush as ambassador to Paris, served this purpose while filling important diplomatic posts with men of stature. Ford also intends to dispatch Peter M. Flanigan, another Nixon stalwart, as Ambassador to Spain...
...citation describes him as "a tireless opponent of poverty and injustice, a stalwart Christian leader offering life and hope to the downtrodden and defeated...