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Penders, who played AA ball in the Cleveland Indians organization after he was graduated from Connecticut College, came to Fordham this year after a four-year stint in the Ivy ranks with Columbia. Penders brought the reputation of a miracle worker to Morningside Heights, and he lived up to his billing, turning around a basketball program that had thoroughly petered out after the days of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson. His teams improved in a geometric progression, going from 4-22 in 1974-75, to 8-17, to 16-10. Last year Columbia finished...
SENATOR Moynihan does not just relate intrigues in this, his record of his controversial stint as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He launches a rhetorical broadside. It is the same argument he made in the 1975 Commentary article, "The U.S. in Opposition," that vaulted him into the U.N. post; and he is writing here, not just to defend his performance at the U.N., but to reassert the principles upon which it was based. His appeal, then and now, is for a tough-minded confrontation--sleeves up, American style--between American liberalism, a force Moynihan sees as more and more...
...feel like a fish in water," says Actress-turned-Director Jeanne Moreau about her second stint behind the camera. The just finished film Adolescence deals with a 13-year-old Parisienne who goes to see her grandmother in the country and falls in love with a visiting doctor. The grandmother: Simone Signoret. "I was seduced by Moreau's persistence. I like to be chosen," says Signoret. She also likes her director. "Moreau gives actors intelligent explanations, as few directors who have never been actors can," she explains. As for Moreau, she regards directing as a step up. Says...
Anatoli Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., on his 16-year stint in Washington: "I miss black bread and the cultural life...
...Louise Day Hicks, Sears blitzed the television electorate with his campaign song--crooned to the strains of Greensleeves behind films of burned-out ghettos--"John Sears is the man who cares, he's the man who caaares about people..." White defeated all comers and began an 11-year stint as mayor; Sears later ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Suffolk County, then assumed the chair of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), those gentlement who curate the public parks around Boston...