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...there is a ring to that which takes one back to the old days when life on this globe was a series of crises strung together with pauses while the Soviets looked for another opening, that is just the way Helms meant it to sound...
...beyond that, it was a sloppy game. Neither team played particularly well except for a brief stretch of nostalgia producing wide-open hockey in the middle of the third period. For the high-strung Parker and his talented group of pucksters, such mediocrity is unacceptable--undefeated season...
DIED. Willard F. Rockwell, 90, honorary chairman of Rockwell International Corp.; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. An engineer and inventor, Rockwell strung together a chain of companies, specializing in auto parts, from the 1920s through the 1950s. He gradually turned the business over to his son, who merged Rockwell-Standard with North American Aviation in 1967 and six years later assembled his companies into the current conglomerate...
Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...
...standard Upper West Side ugly duckling, like TV's Brenda Morgenstern: she is a sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...