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Brittin is one of four students from Washington and Lee University, a small all-male school in Lexington, Va., that have come north to Harvard to run in the hilly, tortuous, world-famous marathon today...
There was little ennobling in the broad shape of human affairs in 1973. Mankind progressed haltingly, if at all, in its tortuous quest for greater wisdom in the conduct of international relations and greater brotherhood among individuals. The U.S. continued to improve relations with China and clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely...
Nixon's most tortuous-and mysterious-business dealings surround his estate at San Clemente, Calif. In 1969, in two separate transactions, Nixon acquired his Western White House and 28.9 acres around it for $1.5 million, largely with the help of loans from his millionaire friend Robert Abplanalp. In December 1970, he sold all but 5.9 acres of this property for $1,249,000. The buyer's legal name was the B and C Investment Co., but in reality the buyers were the President's staunch friends Abplanalp and Rebozo. Nixon had, in effect, sold his friends...
Richard Nixon stands nearer his own resignation or impeachment than ever before. How near is the unanswerable question. But the sense of the men in the White House that they have now resolved part of their tortuous problem is false. It is one of those singular illusions that result from their isolation...
...many problems that plague the production of Meet Pamela-an insurance company balks at backing a skittish leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence in The Soft Skin. The prototype of Truffaut's assistant in the picture is his real-life assistant, Suzanne Schiffman...