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...project in 1962, British and French plane builders have been boasting that their 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde would open the era of supersonic air transport. Now the pitch has changed slightly. Last week, speaking at an aviation-writers convention in Manhattan, British Aircraft Corp. Chief Engineer William Strang scratched a line in his text that touted the Concorde as "the world's first supersonic transport," settled for a declaration that "the Concorde will not fail...
Winthrop has combined a good defense, anchored by a large, fast line, with a varied offense led by quarterback Mitch Sikora and halfback Rick Solomon. Junior fullback-coach Joel Strang, end Jeff Neal, and Solomon have shared scoring honors...
...much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts...
...cries out her soul like an hysterical child, desperately pleading for magic magic, not realism. She can give you the virgin-like innocence of a child one minute and the drunken swagger of a two-bit slut the next. There is a fine Blanche latent here! There are some strang inflections and an unusual clipped speech that often give her voice an ingenuous quality, and seem wholly at odds with a New Orleans drawl; but it is to Miss Humphrey's credit as a concentrated performer that she is the only member of the company who has made any attempt...
...Chicago Restaurant Association, where Strang sought help in his fight against the union demand for payoff, turned out to be tied to the mob through Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, who secretly passed Strang's $2,240 payment for legal fees directly to the union...